We were dumbounded this morning by an article printed in USA Today, where Clinton cited an Associated Press article, “that found how Sen. Obama’s support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states [North Carolina and Indiana] who had not completed college were supporting me.”
“There’s a pattern emerging here,” she said.
Well, it ain’t no quilt pattern, that’s for sure. Hillary just supported an article that stated working (AND hard-working?) uneducated white Americans were her supporters. This was a blunt and shocking statement that hearkens back to the old equation of whiteness = hard work (or that blacks are lazy and don’t work). This is a white ethnic narrative that dates back to the Wallace/Buchanan/Reagan era and it smacks of white supremacies.
But wait - then she added, “These are the people you have to win if you’re a Democrat in sufficient numbers to actually win the election. Everybody knows that.”
WHAT? Now she’s saying that hard-working uneducated white voters are the ones who carry all the weight for the Democratic party? With those statements, Hillary Clinton disenfranchised more than half her voters and disparaged the Democratic Party. Any delegate who remains loyal to Clinton should be ashamed of their affiliation and embarrassed about staying on board a sinking ship.
Posted by FA Editors at 11:00 PM PDT
