Like a lot of Americans, especially Black and Hispanics, and others of goodwill, the prospects of this being a good Memorial Day Weekend was severly dampened late Friday afternoon by a very distasteful statement by Senator Hillary Clinton.
After reviewing comments and articles in newspapers from around the country, I am certain that the statement by Senator Clinton will be given the close and critical scrutiny that it deserves. What has been bothering me, though, is the apparent lack of reactions from Black leaders who support the Clinton campaign.
What will it take before these leaders open their minds and accept the fact that the Clinton campaign has become a Negative for people of color and goodwill. The Clinton campaign has also become a Negative to the Democratic party and the Hope for Change in America.
Unfortunately for Mrs. Clinton, she may have made the mistake of putting her thoughts into words this past Friday. But what really bothers me is the apparent lack of any meaningful reactions from the Black leaders who have been supporting her. Is it possible that they are unable to see that there might be a connection between continuing an unwinable campaign and Senator Clinton's statement?
In the final analysis, should something untoward happend to Senator Barak Obama we, the people, would have only ourselves to blame. Shame on us for being so politically naieve that we chose as our leaders people whose commitment to self-interest maybe, for some of them, more important than doing the right thing.
Fortunately for us and the county this is Memorial Day Weekend. So there is time for our Black leaders, for leaders of color and for people of good will to toss aside narrow self-interest and do the right thing for the greater good of the Democratic Party. The time to change is here. Stop procrastinating and lolly gagging. Just get on the bus!
It is time for the Undeclared Superdelegates to inform Senator Clinton and the country, that the greater good of the Democratic party and the country requires that they immediately discontinue the informal agreement to withhold making public their preferences for who should be the Democratic Nominee for President!
The Eler
2 comments:
Hi Dad! How are you? Thank you so very much for the blogging! I look forward to reading your posts. Blogging is difficult as it takes a level of independence and stick-with-itness that I do not necessarily have! I look forward to questioning and learning!
My first comment was to the first post. This comment is for this post.
I agree with you - it seems as if the Black "leaders" look like deer caught in headlights. I am happy to see however the thousands of other people though who twenty years ago would never even have considered an Obama or a Clinton.
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