So apparently Sean Hannity’s pastor is a crazy black man with who blamed the problems of Hurricane Katrina on black people who were too poor to leave and said if white folks were to leave the country to black folks, they’d turn it into a ghetto.
Sigh. We’ve heard this self-hating rhetoric before and somehow or another it still makes news. Global Grinders shook their heads collectively at this one, with Tanspot posting: “I'm not shocked. That's why the Uncle Ruckus Show will be on tv one day for real.” Joyous said “The folks at Fox News have a special knack for locating Sambos.” True dat.
Here’s my thing. The only reason this Peterson idiot got any mainstream coverage at all was his connection to Hannity and that being relevant to the ongoing Rev. Wright controversy. Are white folks really that scared of Barack Obama actually having any racial identity that they think he’ll somehow leave them behind in the Black White House? Puhleeze. Don’t blame Barack Obama for that one, people. Put that on the multinational corporations that have outsourced jobs, given the clear advantage to corporations over their employees and charged average working folks up the ass in fees for things like taking their own money out of the bank.
The only issue that should be front and center of this campaign is not Bosnia or Rev. Wright or when-the-hell-is-the-Clinton-machine-gonna-give-it-up, it’s the economy. When you have folks with expensive educations busting their asses just trying to survive, that’s a problem. When we’re pouring billions into a war we’ll never win and kids are going hungry and homeless when their parents are working, that’s a problem. Families losing their homes because big business profited off their desire to buy into the American dream is a problem.
When even four more minutes of Republican rule is a sickening thought, never mind four more years, we don’t need to get caught up in the petty ish. We need to be figuring how to get our mommas, baby mommas, nieces, nephews, sisters, cousins, next-door neighbors and cabdrivers to put their energy behind voting for somebody who’s not out to help keep the rich richer off the backs of the poor and middle-class. Are you feeling me out there? What do you think the campaigns should focus on from this point on? -Hellifiknow