stephanie
04-25-2008, 03:27 PM
Holy Moly..:eek:
By SONYA ROSS
Associated Press Writer
Imagine, for just a minute, the pain of America's first black president.
Not Barack Obama - Bill Clinton.
That's about the only explanation for Clinton's lack of brotherly behavior lately: He's in pain.
He is a figurative black man watching an actual black man soak in all the love that black voters used to save for him.
Suddenly, he looks oh so white.
The former president's love affair with black America hasn't soured to the point that he'll be chased out of his office in Harlem. But black people might revoke Clinton's honorary brother card if, out of his pain, he keeps hating on Obama. He's treating the Illinois senator like an unworthy heir to his racial legacy.
At first, Clinton's slips of the lip about black voting habits and the like could be chalked up to election-year politics. Why wouldn't an ex-president try to cajole his party's most loyal voters into supporting his candidate of choice? Especially when that candidate is his wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.
The problem is, nobody bothered to tell Clinton that honorary blackness is also temporary. No matter how much he's done on the subject of race, his brother privileges are always up for renewal.
SNIP:
EDITOR'S NOTE - Sonya Ross, a news editor in the AP's Washington bureau, was one of the few black White House reporters during the Clinton years.
read it all here..
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2004372843_apondeadlinerace.html
By SONYA ROSS
Associated Press Writer
Imagine, for just a minute, the pain of America's first black president.
Not Barack Obama - Bill Clinton.
That's about the only explanation for Clinton's lack of brotherly behavior lately: He's in pain.
He is a figurative black man watching an actual black man soak in all the love that black voters used to save for him.
Suddenly, he looks oh so white.
The former president's love affair with black America hasn't soured to the point that he'll be chased out of his office in Harlem. But black people might revoke Clinton's honorary brother card if, out of his pain, he keeps hating on Obama. He's treating the Illinois senator like an unworthy heir to his racial legacy.
At first, Clinton's slips of the lip about black voting habits and the like could be chalked up to election-year politics. Why wouldn't an ex-president try to cajole his party's most loyal voters into supporting his candidate of choice? Especially when that candidate is his wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.
The problem is, nobody bothered to tell Clinton that honorary blackness is also temporary. No matter how much he's done on the subject of race, his brother privileges are always up for renewal.
SNIP:
EDITOR'S NOTE - Sonya Ross, a news editor in the AP's Washington bureau, was one of the few black White House reporters during the Clinton years.
read it all here..
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2004372843_apondeadlinerace.html