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It would only be racist if a Republican said it.
Because the other things you do matter.
- Trump has been running the most xenophobic, racist campaign of any primary winner in most of our lifetimes
Do you see at all how maybe those things might reasonably influence interpretation of a comment in one direction or another?
- Bill Clinton was so beloved in the black community that 20 years later his wife is still mopping up in that demographic against a guy who marched with King and has been pandering to the BLM movement.
Yes. Because that is the strategy she thinks is the best course to get elected. It has nothing to do with what she actually cares aboutHer entire campaign is focused on racial justice.
It's this kind of apologetic spin that the left uses very selectively. If Bill Clinton says a black guy would have been carrying his bags, oh no that's not what he meant, not racism no, the farthest thing from it! But if a republican were to say the same thing... lump him right in with the KKK. Don't think even regular voters are so stupid they don't see through this kind of bullshit.This is the exact kind of misrepresentation that irks me quite often. Clinton clearly meant that Obama was a jr member of the party and was in no way fit to run for the presidency. He made many statements that amounted to that and stated it outright on more then one occasion. And in retrospect he was probably right. Obama was clearly extremely naive when he became president and a great deal of his idealism and implicit trust in the desire of others to fix the country poisoned much of his first term.
Its really a shame to because I think with 15 or so more years of seasoning and maturity he could have made a great president instead of the mediocre one he became.
I wait for the day when blacks and whites can discourse freely with each other without racial implications. Obviously, that day hasn't yet come.
I've also heard the expression directed at junior executives by senior ones. "Shine my shoes" and "pick my cotton" are pretty common, too.
Nothing demeaning and/or racist about it. Just a commentary on pecking order.
Hillary would be wearing an orange jumpsuit right now if it didn't....Too big to fail also applies to politicians apparently.
This is the exact kind of misrepresentation that irks me quite often. Clinton clearly meant that Obama was a jr member of the party and was in no way fit to run for the presidency. He made many statements that amounted to that and stated it outright on more then one occasion. And in retrospect he was probably right. Obama was clearly extremely naive when he became president and a great deal of his idealism and implicit trust in the desire of others to fix the country poisoned much of his first term.
Its really a shame to because I think with 15 or so more years of seasoning and maturity he could have made a great president instead of the mediocre one he became.
Her entire campaign is focused on racial justice.