CALLING ON BLACK AMERICA

If the Democratic Party does not do the right thing, you do the right thing, stay home November 4, 2008.

Clinton, the Democratic Party and the American people have written you off. Apparently they all think they can win back the White House without you. If they don’t change their mindset and nominate the first viable African-American presidential candidate, Barack Obama, I strongly suggest that you let them win the White House without your vote and stay home November 4, 2008. It is high time that the voting strength of the African-American be not relegated to: it will be good if we had them, but we are not going to do anything to insure that they vote for us, because we know they will in the end. If this is not the mindset of the powers that be, then why do you think tactics and statements, like these, continue to be the norm? Why else would Hillary Clinton even be considering this: Clinton Campaign Considering Nuclear War?

It is suggested that the African-American vote will be there for the party no matter what and they are counting on peace maker Barack Obama to save them, if they don’t do the right thing and nominate him, see Can Hillary win without blowing up the Democratic Party? But I say to the African-Americans of this Nation send a message to the Democratic Party that you made your bed now lie in it without us.

For too many years the Democratic Party has taken your allegiance to them for granted. Their dragging their feet in announcing and backing Barack Obama is a classic example of this. If the threat of losing any other voting block was on the table depending on which way they would go, this nomination process would have been over since February, 2008 after Barack Obama won eleven (11) straight primary victories. There is no doubt in my mind that if the reverse was true, Barack Obama would have been pressured to drop out of the race months ago.

The consistent rationale for their possible support of Hillary Clinton is the potential of bringing back some core white voters that they lost many years ago; presumably because of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, A Fault Line That Haunts the Democrats. If the so-called Regan democrats have been gone since 1972, how is offering up Hillary Clinton to them going to get them back. The Regan democrats stood their ground and still went republican in 1992 and 1996 when Bill Clinton won solely on the strength of his African-American voters support. The truth is it will not and this is a mere smoke screen for not wanting to nominate a viable African-American candidate for president of the United States of America, by some democrats and the Democratic Party leadership.

A recent CBS Poll Shows Obama is own a rebound and now leads McCain by eleven points and Clinton by twelve points. This comes after the media attempted to derail Obama’s campaign with its endless coverage of the Reverend Jeremiah Wright distraction. A recent endorsement editorial in The Charlotte Observer made it clear why the Democratic Party should nominate Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton, as they stated it is Time for a change. Barack Obama has won thirty-one (31) states with twenty-two (22) by double digit leads. Why the democrats would even consider going with someone other than Barack Obama in light of this is beyond me?

Clinton’s whole argument of Barack Obama’s of electability appears to be as one article questions: Obama's "Electability" is code for race? Whether that is true or not I will let you make the call. I do believe that the taking of this presidential nomination from Barack Obama by the Democratic Party and Clinton’s back room maneuverings should be taken as the Democratic Party’s and Hillary Clinton throwing the African-American votes away. So don’t give them what they need to win in November, your vote.

If one woman, Rosa Parks, can say enough is enough and start a ripple in race relations that evolved into a tidal waive, just imagine what millions of African-American voters staying home on November 4, 2008 will do to the Democratic Party and its chances to regain the White House. My take on its effort is it will be dead on arrival.

So if Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party want to go down this path to defeat, let them go down it without the African-American voters in tow and send them a message that will be loud and clear. You have taken our allegiances to the Democratic Party for granted in the past but you shouldn’t have done it this time. Enough is enough. I say stay home, stay home and stay home, if they don’t do the right thing.

Now that is my two cents worth, Leonard.