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The Politics of Racial Division
By Byron A. Ellis, April 26, 2008
The Clintons are close to achieving their objective of a divided Democratic Party and delivering the presidency to McCain. To achieve their objective of preventing Obama from winning the presidency, they have implemented a kamikaze strategy to divide the Democratic Party into blue-collar poor whites on one side and wealthy liberals and African Americans on the other side. What a gift to the Republicans.
Why would they destroy the Party that propelled them into the White House? Only two reasons appear plausible: The first is that they are selfish and self-centered and the second is that they do not believe that a minority is worthy of the presidency of the United States.
Many African Americans believe that the latter is the more plausible scenario. And, Clinton’s lack of intervention in the Rwandan massacre adds credence to that view. Moreover, the Clintonian drumbeat that poor whites would not vote for Obama appears to be a play on racial stereotyping. Otherwise, the drumbeat would have been that poor people in general would not vote for Obama.
The Clintons also used the divisive strategy in Texas with Latinos by creating interplay of opposites between African Americans and Hispanics. However, they failed to recognize that Hispanics encompasses a variety of ethnicities and Afro-Hispanics comprise a large portion of Hispanics in the United States; and, they too are concern about the Clintonian racial overtone.
It is also quite evident that pundits and news commentators with Clintonian leanings are implementing the same strategy of Balkanizing the electorate. Likewise, CNN’s tendency to divide the electorate by race, class, age and so on contributes to the climate of divisiveness.
The CNN and Clintonian racial overtone is appalling to many Americans of all persuasions. We do not need a balkanized country; we’ve seen the detrimental effects of balkanization. Politicians and newscaster with such tendencies are not good for any nation.
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