Hillary’s latest blunder

So now Hillary wants to reference Robert Kennedy's assassination as her reason to stay in the race she has already lost? Like maybe somebody will make good on the threats she's been hearing about? She is taking drastic measures, and trying to ignite something at the same time? The fact she even said that seems like enough to charge her with a crime. Inciting a riot. That's actually a charge.

She doesn't need to remind us of the racial hatred, bigotry, pessimism, and fear that are already giving us a flash back to the 60's!!

That's how selfish of a person she is. To get in the White House Hillary Clinton is willing to tear the country apart.

She would rather see America implode, than prosper.

Is that the person you want running the show?

If you scared go to church

In the days, weeks, and months after 9/11, our country was together like no other time in my lifetime. Regardless of how you felt about our policies, foreign or domestic, most of us felt like somebody had to pay. I am very critical of our country and its policies past and present, but I felt about 9/11 like I feel about Hiroshima & Nagasaki. Killing "civilians" , and calling it an act of war, is a dishonorable thing to do especially in the name of religion. I think it contradicts the fundamentals of its purpose.

Barack Obama is showing us how far away we are from were we were then. His most recent comments are truthful, just like his speech in response to the comments of his former pastor Jeremiah Wright. People are voting on things that they should not be. People want things to change but they let politicians, the media, fear, insecurities, and self serving beliefs punch the ticket for them at the polls. Then they talk about how little politicians do.

The truth hurts. We all know something true about ourselves that we don't want to admit. We all know things that are fact yet we dismiss them as theory, speculation, or pure fiction.

So for this election if you want to continue to hear what is easier on the ears then you should not vote for Obama. But if you're not scared of the truth and of the changes that we all know we need to make, then vote for Barack Obama.

I just can't believe Bill & Hillary Clinton

I know politics are politics and it’s a dirty game. I understand that to be president most will do anything to get there. However, Hillary Clinton’s comments about Lyndon B. Johnson and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. are inexcusable to me. What Hillary fails to realize is that Dr. King and many others did not fight and die for the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. When that bill passed it didn’t change racism in America. Racism didn’t change in 1965 with the passing of the Voters Rights Act and it still didn’t change when they passed the Civil Right’s Act again in 1968.

Hillary behaves as if racism was over with in the 1960’s. If that is the case, then why are there so many black men in prison today? You could say that it’s because they broke laws and you would be correct. But the fact that black men go to prison quicker and for longer periods of time than any other race is proof of only one thing. Racism, the foundation on which this country was built, is still very real today.

I am most disturbed by the fact that I have never heard anyone say the things Hillary said about Dr. Martin Luther King and Lyndon B. Johnson. I am an 80’s baby born at the end of the Carter administration. In all of my years on this earth I have never heard those remarks made before. I even asked some of my elders who where coming of age in the 1960’s South and they have never heard comments such as those made by Hillary.

Hillary and Bill are playing a dirty race game and they’re trying to unify white people into getting behind them. I think there trying to get white voters to see that Barack Obama is like Dr. Martin Luther King. This will backfire on them, because they know there is nothing wrong with being compared to a man who is worthy of sainthood. However, they are doing it to spin the election into a discussion on race. That is slimy and they should be ashamed.

The dream that Dr. King talked about has not been realized. The dream is still a dream. Bill and Hillary are afraid of being on the losing end of that dream when Barack Obama is sworn in as the president of the United States of America.

Bob Johnson & Hillary Clinton make an odd couple

The fact that Bob Johnson is supporting Senator Clinton for president does not come as a surprise to me, nor does it offend me as a black man supporting Senator Obama. The fact that all African-Americans are not supporting the Senator in the upcoming election doesn’t bother me. As I have said before, I was not a supporter of Senator Obama until I read his most recent book and then took time to find out more information about the issues that he is most concerned with. Anybody who thinks that all black people think the same way and share the same political views has their head (or ass) in the sand. Black people in America come from many different backgrounds and have different views on religion, family, education, crime prevention, AND politics, among other things. So in light of this, I’m not mad at Mr. BET for supporting Senator Clinton. That is his right as a citizen—who hasn’t been convicted of a felony—to support whomever he chooses.

However, what I find offensive is the fact that he would defend comments, made by Senator Clinton, that are a direct slap to the face of Martin Luther King Jr., his message, and the civil rights movement.

What makes it worse, is Mr. Johnson’s ambiguous reference to either Senator Obama’s days as a high school student who experimented with drugs or to his days on Chicago’s Southside as a community organizer and civil rights lawyer. Mr. Johnson put his foot down his throat (again) when he later attempted to clean up his comments by saying that he was not referencing the drug experimentation. I don’t know why he thought his later statement would make things sound better. Maybe he was motivated to “clarify” after the backlash he received and the fact that the Clinton’s planned to use Mr. Johnson to help win South Carolina, which they did not.

Attacking a man in his forties for things he did in his teenage years is ridiculous. A black man attacking another black man for his work in civil rights and the community is inexcusable, to say the least. The comments that Mr. Johnson made turned out (in my mind) to be worse than the comments made by Senator Clinton (Saying that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would not have seen his dream come through if it were not for Lyndon B. Johnson.) I have news for Senator Clinton, Dr. King’s dream has not been realized. Bob Johnson is proof of that.

Case-in-point, we are talking about Mr. BET here. The same man that brought us BET Uncut. This show served as an introduction to black strip clubs for those who have never been. He’s also the same man that was presiding over the only black-owned cable channel (at the time) when they fired Tavis Smiley and canceled BET News. Those were two platforms that could have been used to uplift black people and show the world that we are not all as we are portrayed in mainstream media. The fact that Bob Johnson made those comments should not come as a surprise to anybody. His comments were really disappointing and I hope that the black voters in South Carolina were not buying into his message.