Bob Herbert responds to Hillary Clinton's assertion that working-class white voters won't vote for Barack Obama because he's Black.

—So there was Hillary Clinton cold-bloodedly asserting to USA Today that she was the candidate favored by “hard-working Americans, white Americans,” and that her opponent, Barack Obama, the black candidate, just can’t cut it with that crowd.

“There’s a pattern emerging here,” said Mrs. Clinton.

There is, indeed. There was a name for it when the Republicans were using that kind of lousy rhetoric to good effect: it was called the Southern strategy, although it was hardly limited to the South. Now the Clintons, in their desperation to find some way — any way — back to the White House, have leapt aboard that sorry train.

He can’t win! Don’t you understand? He’s black! He’s black!

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The Clintons should be ashamed of themselves. But they long ago proved to the world that they have no shame.

Hillary is sure to employ lots of other dirty/racist tricks to derail Barack's presidential run.  No shame indeed.

        

        

Vogue Italia is set to publish an issue with ALL BLACK MODELS!  Gotta get my hands on that!


Arlenis!

        

The New York Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit Wednesday challenging the NYPD's racially biased practice of stopping people for questioning without probable cause.

"Walking while black is not a crime, and yet every year hundreds of thousands of innocent New Yorkers are stopped, searched and interrogated by the police for doing just that."

        

1. "What are you?"
2. "What is your nationality?" or "You look foreign"
3. "You're all beautiful" or "You make beautiful babies" (Personally, I don't really mind this one. )
4. "Are you X or Y?" or "Which side are you more on?"
5. "How in the world did your parents meet?"
6. "You're the future" or "You have the best of both worlds"
7. "You don't look …" or "You're not …" or "You sound white"
8. "Aren't we all mixed anyway?"

From DiversityInc. 

        

Here's the LINK to Monday's NPR News and Notes Blogger's Roundtable with Farai Chideya featuring me, Danny Perry of There... Already and Desmond Burton of... Afronerd.

        

        

From The Root.

—Sister Study, a nationwide effort to find the causes of breast cancer. The Sister Study is especially urging African-American women to join the study so we can learn what causes breast cancer in the African-American community.  Please visit www.sisterstudy.org or call the hot line toll-free at 1-877-4-SISTER (474-7837) from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Eastern time. As our motto says,woman by woman … sister by sister, we can make a difference.

        

On May 2nd, 2008, Mildred Loving, 68, passed away from pneumonia.



Ms. Loving was banished from Virginia for marrying a white man.  Her experience led to the end of state miscegenation laws.

—In Loving v. Virginia, Warren wrote that miscegenation laws violated the Constitution’s equal protection clause. “We have consistently denied the constitutionality of measures which restrict the rights of citizens on account of race,” he said.

By their own widely reported accounts, Mrs. Loving and her husband, Richard, were in bed in their modest house in Central Point in the early morning of July 11, 1958, five weeks after their wedding, when the county sheriff and two deputies, acting on an anonymous tip, burst into their bedroom and shined flashlights in their eyes. A threatening voice demanded, “Who is this woman you’re sleeping with?”

Mrs. Loving answered, “I’m his wife.”

Mr. Loving pointed to the couple’s marriage certificate hung on the bedroom wall. The sheriff responded, “That’s no good here.”