I appreciate the scholarly research that the blog The New Underground Railroad (http://thenewundersgroundrailroad.blogspot.com/) has done.
Look for the Monday, February 18, 2008 post "Rep. Cleaver: 'Loyalty Trumps Race.'" There is a Black member of Congress named Emanuel Cleaver from Kansas City, Missouri who supports Senator Hillary Clinton for President rather than Senator Barak Obama.
A blogger named "Skeptical Brotha,"
(http://skepticalbrotha.wordpress.com/2008/01/29/hillarys-handkerchief-heads-call-them-out/) wrote to Congressman Cleaver:
Dear Handkerchief Head:
You have been unconscionably silent in the face of Bill Clinton’s racially divisive tactics on behalf of Senator Clinton’s presidential campaign. I can only surmise from your silence that you either approve of Bill Clinton’s tactics or are too gutless to publicly register your opposition. Whatever the case may be, I have taken the liberty of writing to formally register my unbridled indignation and to withdraw whatever support I may have given to your re-election campaign.
Pretending that the President’s comments were somehow taken out of context or don’t mean what they plainly imply simply will not do. Burying your head in the sand or defending the indefensible won’t do either. It’s time to do-you know what-or get off the pot. You can delay addressing these comments if you want to, but you do so at your peril.
Pretending that the President’s comments were somehow taken out of context or don’t mean what they plainly imply simply will not do. Burying your head in the sand or defending the indefensible won’t do either. It’s time to do-you know what-or get off the pot. You can delay addressing these comments if you want to, but you do so at your peril.
Some of us were raised to believe that members of the Congressional Black Caucus were among the best Black public servants in the country. Your actions belie that notion and constitute a slap in the face to those that came before you in the Reconstruction era. They fought valiantly for a seat at the table for African Americans before they were disenfranchised through the white supremacist tactics of mob violence, grandfather clauses, literacy tests, and poll taxes.
Continuing to languish on the Clinton plantation in light of these racially divisive tactics is a betrayal of the progressive ideals of the Democratic Party and to the many unsung heroes of the civil rights movement who fought to make America a functioning and pluralistic democracy. As for me, I am through with the Clinton’s and I am too through with you.
Continuing to languish on the Clinton plantation in light of these racially divisive tactics is a betrayal of the progressive ideals of the Democratic Party and to the many unsung heroes of the civil rights movement who fought to make America a functioning and pluralistic democracy. As for me, I am through with the Clinton’s and I am too through with you.
Sincerely,
Skeptical Brotha, a Negro who has some damn self-respect.
Are the chickens coming home to roost? Black Democrats calling other Black Democrats handkerchief heads?
You would think Congressman Cleaver was a Republican.
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