« Return to Article

Member Comments

• • Reply
  • Report Abuse
  Posted By:
  loris bay at 03/20/2008 4:29:32 PM
  Comment:
  What really tugged at my insides was the Black journalist who were trying to provide analysis and be objective. I honestly felt sorry for them. I was aksing myself where did they come from? where were they raised? Who raised them? They are Black people in America. Period. I dont care how much money they make, where they live, what they do for a living, If they are half Black, or who they marry. They are Black people in America. Period. If there is any subject that Black people in America can not be objective about, it is Race. It was if they were not properly prepared for the day when the cab will not stop, or the eating establishment will wait on their table last, (even when they arrived first) and on and on and on. If you are a Black person in America you should know all too well what Rev. Wright was saying and why he was saying it. The Black journalist should not be used by the right wing media or the main stream media. There comes a time when you have to speak-up and say what you know in your heart needs to be said. you will be respected more for saying it.
• • Reply
  • Report Abuse
  Posted By:
  misscleo at 03/20/2008 12:00:54 AM
  Comment:
  I agree that David Gergen also struck me as at least having a clue. Gergen also commented that he thought "ironically" that only one other politician could have given such a speech -- Bill Clinton. I had been saying for several days that the Clintons had kept silent on the issue hoping that Obama would self-destruct on his "new politics" message or be cannibalized by his own constituency. That did not happen -- at least not yet. This silence was all the more insidious because I believe the Clintons have spent more time in the black church than many blacks I know. After the speech, the Clintons, especially Bill was in a unique position to take the high ground and potentially heal some of the wounds inflicted beginning with the Jesse Jackson comment in South Carolina and testify to his own knowledge of that black church where he often sought refuge -- both political and personal. But instead, President Clinton used the opportunity to charge the media (or the black candidate) with a "mugging" on the race issue. Tsk. Tsk. Shame on you, Bill Clinton. These people couldn't find the high road if someone drove them to it and dropped them off there.