This *country* may be ready for a black President.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

But it's pretty clear to me at this point that the *Democratic Party* isn't ready for a black nominee. Between the grossly insensitive or outright demeaning comments made by certain Clinton supporters, and the Sharptonesque finding-coded-racism-in-every-statement hyperparanoia of certain Obama supporters (and I mean this generally, not just DU) it's pretty clear to me that both sides have played a hand. Hillary didn't make this about race. Obama didn't make this about race. Many individuals within the Democratic Party made this about race. Not the Republicans, not the media (though they were quick to pile on.) We did this to ourselves. There's guilt to spread around on both sides. But regardless of how and why and who, it's pretty goddamn clear to me at this point that the Democratic party isn't mature enough on race issues to have a black man as its nominee. I thought we were, and Sweet Jesus was I ever wrong. So fine. Fuck it. Black people will still vote for us because the alternative is worse, and we'll keep putting them in jail in the interest of being "tough on crime." And the first black President will probably be a fucking Republican. So much for the party of racial inclusiveness.

[TwilightGardener]

1. Bullshit--Hillary made it about race when she started losing, after Iowa.

Race wasn't much of an issue all last year, and wouldn't have been an issue now, if she had already sewed up the nomination. She pulled out the card as a weapon in her arsenal.

[babylonsister]

4. Where are the Dem mouthpieces condemning her tactics? It's

been too strangely quiet. I want to hear some chops being busted over this.

[TwilightGardener]

11. Maybe they're afraid of turning this into a party-wide conflagration

that will hurt Obama, and the party, even more than just letting Obama's campaign deal with it and downplay it.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

5. That may be.

But it doesn't let the dingbats claiming that the 3AM ad is racist off the hook. They're every bit as bad.

[TwilightGardener]

9. I agree--the 3 am ad was not racist. But no one from Obama's camp said it was.

[rocktivity]

2. ..

:headbang:
rocknation

[Joe the Revelator]

3. The party is fine with it. Hillary has a problem with it.

[Bullet1987]

6. Bullshit...and I'm tired of the apologists trying to blame both sides

when it's been Hillary Clinton's surrogates who have instigated every bit of racial thing to hit the news. From SC to Mississippi, nobody put a gun to Ferraro's head and made her make racially insensitive remarks. She did that on her own...Obama's campaign had nothing to do with that.

I want you to show me a comment an Obama supporter (not on DU) has made about race...ever. Excluding Jesse Jackson Jr., because his comments haven't been talked about in weeks and has nothing to do with what's being said now.

[scheming daemons]

7. Hillary is doing her level best to push a lot of AAs to the Republican party...

...

[islandmkl]

10. they won't go Repub...they just won't go to the voting booths...

same effect, worse result....

Dems turning off AA voters will not be a situation with a quick remedy...

[Not the Only One]

8. Hillary is not the Democratic Party.

Hillary is an apostate. She is merely using our party for her own purposes, to feed her lust for power. This party isn't the party of racists and xenophobes and Islamophobes. Hillary will not lead this party anywhere.