Or Brown Power! Barack says, ‘our time has come’. Well, I say the time for African-Americans and all Minority-Americans to, at last, have our own powerful role model in the most powerful place in our country.
From msnbc.com:
Preliminary results of a survey of voters leaving their polling places in Louisiana showed that nearly half of those casting ballots were black. As a group, African-Americans have overwhelmingly favored Obama in earlier primaries, helping him to wins in several Southern states.
The same article reported that in the Virgin Islands 90% of people voted for Barack. It is time for brown, red and black people all over this country to rise up and speak up through their ballot.
Forty years ago hundreds of thousands of voices and feet protested the legalized segregation, hatred and violence againsts blacks and browns. And now, over 40 years later our time has come at last.
I did not march in the Civil Rights Movement. I was not alive then, but I wonder if I had been, whether I would have had the courage to be non-violent or desperate enough to follow the ‘by any means necessary’ campaign. Regardless, I am grateful so many people had the courage to fight for what seems to be an inch of success in 40 years time.
Barack is our hope for equality and for the fulfillment of a long overdue debt our nation owes its longsuffering minorities.
Barak has support from all people. Nebraska and Washington State have lower populations of African Americans. It’s time the media and others stopped playing the race card in order for this country to start healing. Our government and the old warriors behind the racial and gender divide are ready to topple. Barak is clearing the path for anyone and everyone, including woman of EVERY race. We have to stop thinking of blame and guilt and working together. Barak is our step and door to the future for all of us.
By: maryblu on February 10, 2008
at 5:01 am
According to the demographics, I should be voting for Hillary Clinton: I’m a white, 60-year-old, highly educated woman from the Northeast. But I’m voting for Obama. I’ve waited all my life for a viable woman candidate for the presidency, but this is not the right woman. I want a woman of the highest ability and virtue, who would serve as a glorious role model to all young women. Hillary Clinton is not that woman.
She rode into power with her husband, and together they’ve acquired a long and seriously flawed history of self-serving and secretive financial and political dealings. The most cursory research will prove that true. She started out her political life supporting the racist Barry Goldwater. She is as comfortable with deception and trickery as George Bush. When I hear woman saying, “Oh, but that’s how you get things done in Washington,” I literally cringe.
I am passionately supporting Barack Obama. He can beat the Republicans; she cannot. Obama has attracted Independents and even Republicans to his camp, and in a general election they would vote for him, but not for Clinton. Clinton voted for the war, and has never apologized for it. Obama has spoken out against it from the beginning. Obama brings us hope–and not just that. Take a serious look at his ideas and experience.
Please, I beg of you, Sisters young and old: wait for the right woman. Then we can be proud.
Diane Wald
By: whydidyoudoit on February 10, 2008
at 10:03 am
I am a 40ish, educated white woman, and I would not vote for either. Not because one is or is not black or is or is not a woman. Neither will I vote for someone because it is time to wrong a right or advance a minority population. I vote for someone based on my core values and how much they line up with them, the top of the list is right to life.
By: kris winegar on June 24, 2008
at 6:51 pm