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What promise would a Clinton presidency bring to Black women? Probably less than the Condoleezza Rice ascendancy to secretary of State has meant, yet Black women aren't rallying around Condi because of the company she keeps. She's got the right chromosomes AND she is Black and brilliant. Oh, that's right, she is Republican, so that old order determines that she has forfeited her Blackness, or her femaleness, or both.
The election results in South Carolina showed that quite a few Black female voters in that state saw that former President William J. Clinton sees them as Black first. They-jmoved away from Sen. Clinton in droves and handed [Barack Obama] a stunning and convincing win. Bill Clinton immediately dismissed their vote as a "Black thang," comparing Obama's win to Rev. Jesse Jackson's in 1984 and 1988.Four years of Obama will bring four years of the New National Order transforming this nation, perhaps even in spite of Obama. Those four years will see all these new voters and new volunteers and new activists moving into city councils and state houses and Congress. They will be less impressed with party labels and more impressed with collective vision. They will demand that certain things be fixed - public education system, immigration, urban crime - and some things be broken - treaties with nations that could care less how many of our children die defending them, dependence on fossil fuels and powerlessness in the face of the health care industry.It will make old-line civil rights leaders and old-line civil rights organizations extinct if they cannot apply themselves to the new/old reahties of failing schools and increasing neighborhood death tolls and burgeoning prison populations.See the full content of this document
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Ransom Notes: Obama Represents New National Order
On Tuesday, Illinois voters and voters in another 21 states will go to the polls to help choose a Democratic nomi-nee for president.
While the major Democratic candidates are beating up on each other and telling everyone that they dese...See the full content of this document
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