So African-Americans watch a Black man with a good chance of becoming president get BEATEN DOWN...

[Bicoastal]

...due to stuff his pastor said about race. Not something the candidate himself said--his PASTOR said. And most of it was 100% true. Never mind.

But then once that's gone and done and over with, the predominantly white media and politicos will come back to their favorite question about the AA community--

"Why

So

Angry?"

It makes your head spin, it really does...

:banghead:

[BeatleBoot]

1. Tip of the Iceberg

Do your homework.

[Cha]

2. Machiavellian forces run the

m$$$fm..it's not such a big mystery.

[DearAbby]

3. It's JIM CROW of the 21st Century.........n/t

[KittyWampus]

4. Wow! Another thread on Wright. Thanks God. And so original, too.

[Bicoastal]

7. Gimme a break, I haven't been at the computer or tv all day.

This was an extraordinarily busy one....

[Forkboy]

So why don't you just skip them?

Who forces you to click on each one? You're an adult, presumbly, so you control your actions and read what you want to read, and comment on what you want to comment on. No?

[grantcart]

14. actually this thread had nothing to do with Wright but how a segment of the population

is viewing the reaction to it.

[democrattotheend]

5. I'm white and I'm mad as hell about it

I have no doubt in my mind that the Wright scandal would not be such a huge media shitstorm if Obama and his pastor were white.

[FrenchieCat]

6. They don't even have to ask me anything,

cause far as I'm concerned, I'm no longer home in any party. Period.

[cliffordu]

12. If Hillary steals the nomination over this:

I'll write in Wright on my ballot in November. I swear to fucking God.

You have a home in my party FrenchieCat.

I'm sure as hell ready to start my own...

[Yossariant]

8. Quit whining and man up. The chickens are coming home to roost.

February 1, 2008

NBC Is Toughest on Hillary; FOX Has Heaviest Coverage

Hillary Clinton is getting the worst press and Barack Obama the best press of any major presidential candidate, and Bill Clinton is also getting negative reviews, while the gap in good press between John McCain and Mitt Romney is narrowing, according to a new study of TV news election coverage by the Center for Media and Public Affairs. The study also finds that FOX’s evening news show had the most coverage of policy issues and the least coverage of the campaign horse race...

Hillary Pilloried?

Since mid-December, when the presidential candidates turned their full attention to the Iowa caucuses, Sen. Barack Obama has led the race for good press and Sen. Hillary Clinton has lagged the farthest behind. From Dec 16 through Jan 27 five out of six on-air evaluations of Obama (84%) have been favorable, compared to a bare majority (51%) of evaluations of Mrs. Clinton. Examples:
http://www.cmpa.com/election%20news%202_1_08.htm

[Forkboy]

10. Why does no one say "woman up"?

[VotesForWomen]

19. i think they should, and to men. nt

[Forkboy]

21. LOL...it would be an improvement for many of us men, no doubt.

:)

[Ellen Forradalom]

9. "Why so angry?" Crack open a history book.

Sheesh.

[Bicoastal]

16. Miss the point often, do you?

[grantcart]

11. I would hope that many of them will see large sections of the country

taking Obama to heart and defending Wright who is at turns brilliant and completely self absorbed and egotistical.

[annie1]

13. good point. some black leaders should certainly come forward....

maybe they will. they would be wise to wait after IN and NC, no need for more drama right now.

[BeyondGeography]

15. I'd be either dead or in prison a long time ago if I were black

given my impatient and angry disposition. I sincerely believe that. White society and the moral bankruptcy of its double standards are hard enough for me to take as an economically favored white man.

I imagine the church would have been one of my only salvations, and a preacher like Reverend Wright would have been a godsend, so to speak.

From a tactical point of view, I wish he had stopped with the Moyers interview. From a human point of view, I can't blame him a bit for fighting back against the Hannitys of the world.

[Aloha Spirit]

17. I really like this part of "Dreams from my Father"

"We were always playing on the white man's court... by the white man's rules," he writes. "If the principal, or the coach, or a teacher... wanted to spit in your face, he could, because he had the power and you didn't.... The only thing you could choose was withdrawal into a smaller and smaller coil of rage.

And the final irony: should you refuse this defeat and lash out at your captors... they would have a name for that too. Paranoid. Militant. Violent. N***er"

[VotesForWomen]

18. so you understand why a lot of women are pissed off, right? nt

[sandnsea]

20. Yup

We had an opportunity to talk about all of this honestly, but too many choose potshot politics over the common good. Fine lot of Democrats they are.

[TheDonkey]

22. First thing is first, Obama has not been BEATEN DOWN. He will win the nomination and the GE

I say we just drop thiw Wright crap.

[BenDavid]

23. what is amazing is most of you obama paint every damn thing

with a broad brush. Many in teh black community are mad because they see pastor wright as speaking for all the black churches in america. They understand he is not. This is the backlash that obama is getting from the black churches and obama fails to see it.....

what the blacks do not understand is how a man that is so intelligent could allow hisself to remian in a church for 20 years when a pastor speaks of hate for whites and israel and jews. The vast majority of black churches do not do this type of sunday sermons and are down right mad at obama and pastor wright and the media for this....

[ej510]

24. You cannot speak for black people.

Most black people agree with Wright but are mad because we know that some white people hate to hear the truth about their country.

[HuffleClaw]

25. the media built him up and is now tearing him down, as predicted

why the surprise?