...back in the 1880s & '90s, but it's kind of ugly when it rears its head in 2008 America.
In full, Hillary said:
I would point to the fact that that Dr. King's dream began to be realized when President Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, when he was able to get through Congress something that President Kennedy was hopeful to do, the president before had not even tried, but it took a president to get it done. That dream became a reality, the power of that dream became a real in peoples lives because we had a president who said we are going to do it, and actually got it accomplished.
Seems like she's saying, "Sure, Reverend King could 'dream' his negro dream, but it took a white Southern politician to make it happen in 'The Real World'," as though she's protecting us from 'False Hopes' in her role of self-sacrificial Noblesse Oblige.
It's ironic, recalling that John F. Kennedy -- who both Barack and Hillary harken to, in their defense -- spoke with a wry turn, of that French 'Revolutionary' that said (heroically), "There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I can lead them."
Of course the irony of Lyndon Johnson calling Martin King to the Oval and telling him that, together, they would get the Civil Rights Act passed after King had made any alternative impossible in D.C. is a bit rich.
It is something less than ironic that a $Billionaire African-American entrepreneur would find his bread buttered on the Clinton side of the slice he's expecting to land face-up, now that the mold-shattering contest between our 1st Woman President is faced off against our 1st Black President -- and that he says,
"To me, as an African American, I am frankly insulted the Obama campaign would imply that we are so stupid that we would think Hillary and Bill Clinton, who have been deeply and emotionally involved in black issues — when Barack Obama was doing something in the neighborhood; I won't say what he was doing, but he said it in his book — when they have been involved."
OK, so back all those years ago when Hillary was waking up to her 'Noblese Oblige' burden, Barack was 'in the neighborhood' being, well, a Black Man.
I'm not a Black American. But, since I was 9- or 11 years old, or so, back when Hillary was a Goldwater Republican and Barack was a gleam in someone's eye, my parents let me know from their putting me in very immediate discomfort that "being involved" in bettering the lot of less fortunate folks isn't a spectator sport, nor is it just a matter of moving the levers of power by remote control.
Of course, Mom and Dad were more 'emotionally involved' than I've ever been. I found out early that being 'emotional' doesn't make me a Black Man, 'in the neighborhood.' And that was just reinforced by debriefing Detroit after '67 in a very tense room with some 'participants.'
...Hillary wasn't there for that 'debriefing,' back then, y'know? although I'm sure she heard about Detroit in '67 sometime later.
I'm sorry it's taken a few days to gestate this and get a Diary posted on it -- I'm sure there's been a few folks saying pretty much the same thing, these past few days. It takes me more than a few minutes to be sure of my ground.
But, now that I've thought about Hillary's reactive ejaculation, and heard the response and the counter-counter-counter responses ... Just sayin'.
I'm still Undecided, Bob Johnson notwithstanding, between Obama and Edwards. (Hillary lost me, not on this, but back at Kyl-Lieberman, so's ya know, though I've been trying to keep an open mind, even then.)