Posted by
BobNews on Sunday, February 17, 2008 7:59:56 PM
Mr. and Mrs. Clinton have enriched themselves by dividing constituents of color from the rest of the population and supporting Affirmative Action, a government racial quota system. By telling African American and Hispanic people that white people, or more accurately white Republican people are holding African American and Hispanic people down, the Clintons have become multi- millionaires and gained great power.
Affirmative Action is really about preferential treatment for constituents of color and without doubt the most important political piling of the Democrat Party. Nearly ninety percent of black people vote for Democrat Presidential Candidates regardless of who the candidate is or what they believe. Democrats can not win National elections without this essential constituent.
Race has been injected into the Democrat primary by the Clintons as they hold true to their history of using race to gain power. The New York Times recently stated, “Recent comments by Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton that have drawn criticism from African-Americans just as the presidential primary campaign reached Southern states with significant numbers of black voters.”
The big issue now facing Mrs. Clinton is how can she deal the race card to the African American and Hispanic community at the same time? Both groups have been manipulated by Democrats and now expect preferential treatment based on race. Most Americans find this kind of political race baiting to be unacceptable but it is a glaring reality in this Democrat primary election.
When politicians use racial manipulation to gain power it harms the entire society but none more than the minority being manipulated. Shelby Steele, author The Content of Our Character, states in his book, “I think affirmative action has shown itself to be more bad than good and that blacks now stand to lose more from it than they gain.” Ward Connerly, author of Creating Equal, has been at the forefront of ending Affirmative Action for the same reasons and has gone toe to toe with the Clintons on the issue.
Many black people have taken exception to racial politics. In a July of 2006 Thomas Sowell, author and syndicated columnist wrote, “For the majority of blacks, Democrats have little to offer besides rhetoric on the things that matter most to them -- their children's education, their personal safety and their moral values. In all these key things, Democrats are not part of the solution, but part of the problem.”
While Mrs. Clinton is not the first politician to use race to obtain power, she is the first to run for Commander-in-Chief and face the dreaded Affirmative Action Quagmire. She has long believed it was good politics to support racial preferences in employment and education for minorities as long as it didn’t affect her.
She now has a problem running for Commander-in-Chief as her opponent is Barack Hussein Obama, a black man, who wants the same job she wants. Mrs. Clinton and her spouse and former President have angered some people because they used race in their efforts to stop the first black man to oppose her. The Clintons great compassion for black people and the need for Affirmative Action is no where in sight.
To compound the problem she has been using the same race-for-power game on the Hispanic people. Mrs. Clinton hired a Hispanic campaign manager, Ms. Solis Doyle, to help her convince Hispanics to place their votes in the Clinton corner. After all, by using a Hispanic woman as a proxy, Mrs. Clinton can play the same race card she uses to control other minority votes on Election Day.
It was recently reported that Mrs. Clinton has now removed Ms. Solis Doyle from her job and replaced her with Maggie Williams, an African-American and a former Clinton adviser. Could it be that this change of race managers has something to do with the fact that Mr. Obama has pulled the black vote to his corner?
Two prominent Hispanic Officials, Senator Rev. Ruben Diaz and Assemblyman Jose Peralta sent a letter demanding answers about Ms. Solis Doyle’s departure from the campaign. The letter said, “It is hard to understand how the Hispanic community that has been there to keep your campaign alive could remain in your corner when the first Hispanic woman to serve as your presidential campaign manager has resigned from her post.”
The Hispanic community is angered by this decision to change out a Hispanic for an African American and they made it very clear, “we would like you to realize that it will be very troubling to many if somehow we later find that she left her post under pressure”. This overt political warning demonstrates just how deep the fissure is when it comes to the racial tension within the party of diversity.
The New York Times, a defender of all things liberal, tried to take the edge off the Affirmative Action divide in reference to the rumblings within the Democrat Party when they recently published this statement referring to the infighting. “But they also provided an early glimpse at the complex set of tradeoffs facing party leaders, from their desire to make their own influence felt to their worries about offending the candidates and particular constituencies.”
One would think it hypocritical of Mrs. Clinton to insist on quotas through Affirmative Action or diversity for others but not herself. For anyone, other than Mrs. Clinton, to believe they are more qualified for a job than a black man is considered a racist act in her political party.
Why doesn’t Mrs. Clinton practice what she preaches, step aside and let a black man be Commander-in-Chief instead of her? After all, isn’t Mr. Obama a particular constituent worthy of preferential treatment?
Mrs. Clinton is truly dealing with an Affirmative Action Quagmire of her own making and it will be interesting to see how she squirms out of this corner.