Thursday, January 17, 2008
The Clintons - one man's perspective
It doesn't take long to conclude that this writer is a professional.
Refreshingly, he seems to have done his homework and supports his points extremely well...
Refreshingly, he seems to have done his homework and supports his points extremely well...
At BlackStarNews.com, Ishmael Reed discusses the Clintons and their relationship with the black community at length. He begins:
"During Bill Clinton's first run for President, I appeared on a New York radio panel with some of his black supporters, including Paul Robeson, Jr., son of the actor and singer.
I said that Clinton had character problems. They dismissed my comments and said that I didn't know anything about politics and should stick to writing novels. (Clarence Page, who has monopoly on the few column inches and airtime made available to black columnists by the corporate media, said the same thing about me. I should stick to creative writing and leave politics alone.)
These criticisms didn't deter me. Writing in The Baltimore Sun, I was the first to identify Clinton as a black president as a result of his mimicking a black style. (I said he was the second, since Warren G. Harding never denied the rumors about his black ancestry.)
As a result of his ability to imitate the black preaching style, Clinton was able to seduce black audiences, who ignored some of his actions that were unfriendly, even hostile to blacks."
And there is much more.
