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Minority VoleeFebreary 2-Mar 2008 pg5
by WILBERT A. TATUM "
Publisher. Emeritus and
Chairman of the Board
Originally posted 2/28/2008
The time is fast approaching
_When America has to decide
who its next President will
be. The way things are
going now, one would
believe that Senator Barack
Obama has a shot. We say
this with eyes shut and
fingers. crossed because we
never expected to have a |
Senator Barack Obama in -
our time. We thought "most_
of us, that is "that he was a
fiction, something out there
somewhere who had come
to rescue us from white
folks at some later date in
some later time.
There is a song from a poet
and songwriter entitled
oSend In The Clowns. ? In
one of the phrases he
concludes, oDon Tt bother;:~
They are here. ? And in a
very real sense, we are
clowns pretending that we _
can pick a man or a woman
Farrakhan fallout from Obama-Clinton debate
to run a country and then we
answer, indeed we can.
_ Senator Hillary Rodham
_ Clinton and Senator Barack
Obama are our presidential
_ many instances, hey have
now.
- Every time Senators Hillary
Clinton and Barack Obama
candidates. We win, no matter debate, there is something "
which one of these wins. It
would be a blessing, if one
can call it that, if they ran.
between them that is not
anger or hostility, It is a
, regard for another human
against each other and finally being whose measure one has
then decided that if one of
them, it really doesn Tt matter
which one, becomes
taken and said to oneself he
or she is good.
president, the other one would There is no reason for us to
~ be chosen for vice president. .
It becomes the best of all
possible worlds for those of
the liberal bent in America
who have hungered for
honesty and decency in
government in America for a
long time. We have not had
that. We have had a series of
. regard Senator John McCain
at all. Perhaps it would be
wise to call him a patriot,
although a patriot does not
appear as crazed as Senator
John McCain seems to be. It
_ would be difficult for any
~ human being who happens to
be Black to. trust that man
with the key to anything,
crooks, really, who, if they are especially the kingdom that.
not selling out to the Saudi,s
they are selling out to a series
of little men in pinstriped
suits who call themselves
expeditors on the one hand
~-and consultants on the other
while they wind up being
_ what they actually are,
crooks, who wish to rob
America of er integrity. In
we know-as.the United States -
of America.
"We are told that within the
next few days, after the
primary vote in Texas and .
Ohio, that we will know who
the Democratic nominee will
be for President. Let us hope
and pray that it is our Hilary ,
continued, TAnd it looked as
Clinton or Barack Obama. No
juncture, and certainly there
are few who would be as"
good for America as these ©
two.
Every once in a while from
out of nowhere "and
certainly, Barack Obama
springs from nowhere "there
comes a knight in shining
armor who is there to rescue
the princess. This country, for
all intents and purposes, is a
princess and should be treated
as such. Barack Obama can
do that. So can Hillary
Clinton.
We have said so many times. the'trup ens of te Sak ?
that no matter which one of and Hillary Rodham Clinton
those "Hillary or Barack "_ might just be the ones who
wins the nomination and _ come to rescue us from the
hopefully the presidency that . fascist crooks, thieves, big
America wins and the rest of " business et al. .
the world wins, too. We do not 2
say these words lightly, for we We must follow these
see looming on the horizon ©: Movements in the political
those who could become arena quickly. We can never
fascist in our time whose goal _ tell when the lying and the
it is to rule America. We are cheating and the stealing
fortunate that it didn Tt happen _Wil begin. Let us be on top
yet, but it can and it might. of our game. Let us use our
defense team wisely going
Our heads are not yet cleared into the arena to fight for
for our accepting the the America that Ought tc to
possibility that Barack Obama, be.
_ a Black African-American in
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ough I might pay a price for ~ everybody. He sees him as.a-~ president, his hope is.in . , Hillary.to make him reje
Amsterdam News Editor In front of a crowd of 20,000 that. ButI would not be beraid oe that means but we sliool pine St hil eh 0
7 people, this past weekend at "_ associated with people who something that ushers in the the hand ot Gade doingin Christiz istiay
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Chicago's McCormick Place, untrue charges against either Farrakhan is a spiritual oy
Nation of Islam leader Israel or Jewish people in our - teacher and he 7 looking oHe is running apolitical who you are ating fe for the
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: , ores pastor-turned-politician. mm, | ally doing. supporting you. ? ee
Democratic senators Barack would try and seize the called on Obama to do more aa
Obama and Hillary Clinton. It moment to make mischief. _ than odenounce ? the 74-year- s4ic; Farrakhan said he did not everyone is Saying that he would be
was do-or-die, oun Russert condemned = old Farrakhan, but to reject ? not want to be used as the impressed, Councilman penning a letter:to Obama,
charged for Clinton, who has ' Farrakhan as an oanti- him also, litmus test in Barack Obama Ts Charles Barron was livid on Barron added, oMany of
been hammered by 11 straight Semite, ? and as he pushed the Obama, an attomey pointed °ampaign, which he said Wednesday moming after Barack T s Black supporters "
losses to Obama since Feb. 5. point and called on Obamato o1 ha would be the plan of the watching the debate. like me, are also:
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- in print and bi ds and that besides, the two irks phan beicadhanand, performance, ? he boomed. rorked to
print and on blogs unacceptable and i him, but Hillary Clinton mares Ce ec ) w help whole
filibustered about which - reprehensible. ? words were the same in bis be While he is going to be the ies: faaiitien ind
Hillary Rodham Clinton tas effect, Yet in aquiescing to pressed bigs on it. nominee, it was despicable to individual ce if you say
would show up- " emotional, _Stressing his o Tstalwart her demand, he offered: TBut. you see Obama has a heart, US the way he played to white you don Tt support
combative, or . Support ? for Israel and long- _ if the word reject T Senator ~ he is not cut throat like America and did a shameful everything he has said, you
compassionate " they all standing relationship with Clinton feels is stronger than " Hillary Clinton, and that is ohing in denouncing Min. don Tt reject the whole man
agreed that she would have to members of the Jewish the word denounce, T then I T ?"?M " why she lost ten states in a Fatrakhan at the behest of and his works, You
come strong 80 as not tolose © COmmunity Obama said, oI happy to concede the point. ry, putting out pictures of Hillary Clinton. acknowledge his place in
again to the Illinois man who- have been very clear in my And I would reject and Obama in African Muslim our local, national and.
would-be-president in the denunciation of his anti- denounce. ? The crowd garb as if there is something Se international community,
March 4, Ohio and Texas Semitic comments. ? , seemed amused by his calmly wrong with being a Muslim, " Not quite wringing his hands ;
ptimaries. Even former Asked to virtually condemn delivered response, or going after Michelle in distress, a vexed Barron oDon Tt keep ming |
preside (ill Paar wiated his pastor, Dr, Jeremiah A, _ " In the aftermath, the statergy en n yori ep en ore at America, and give us
unequivocally that if his wife Wright, Jr. of Trinity United of odenouncing ? Min, now proud What made it worse Was not SP Re
i ght, ty offerin Barack Obama did he Min. nothing.
lost in those states her Church of Christ who had Farrakhan, was lost on some, / mn a only d : denounce :
campaign would be toast. praised Farrakhan, Ob whl some prepared to give | t rele " - a
So it was a sometimes reiterated that he has osome _him the benefit of the doubt. - anything to win. ?
belligerent and Pa me ee vat support from ae,
confrontational Clinton who vewisn community," 8
rigs 0 owe i -_ Clinton decided that she bie aH be any : Animated, Min, Muhammad
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rsked him tat old stale Din ber 2000 Senate ru Harlem's Mosque Number 7, different type of politics that
[Min. Louis] Ftilban When the Independence Party oHe said to the people, if you *PPeals to the American
hich political in New York State offered want a Black leader, look to. People. Min, Farrakhan said
rote Mi Swed support, she said she flat out ev, Jesse Jackson, Rev, tat We can Tt make him out to
oe nied Oar All uows rejoins & pallid Sharpton, himself, He said : be what he is not. He has a
fol alra askof African Wider the control of people _ don Tt make Obama what he is @*tain make up that makes
echrian 9 who were anti-semitic, bel him want to have justice for
American leaders, No one i hug a not, He is.a. man with a " !
king John McCain Israel. , vision, running forthe both sides. The minister told
esi py " o8 t it ewer of the United us to vote our interests. He
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