As has been mentioned in an earlier diary today, Doug Wilder is DELIBERATELY and REPEATEDLY going out of his way to try to incite African-American voters, IMO, by continuing to allege that Bill Clinton said that Barack Obama's candidacy is a 'fairy tale.'

BULLSH*T.

First of all, the remark was about Obama's supposed 'superior judgment' about the war in Iraq.

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I couldn't help but bring attention to what is happening in my neighboring state of Virginia.  Notice below how the Clinton campaign was constrained from even correcting the record of the misstatements and racist implications.

Barack Obama has found a magical formula to win the Democratic Primary and its' working. He and his supporters engender racial hatred towards the Clintons from the African American community, while he at the same time implores everyone else to look beyond race. The end result is 85%+ support in the black vote, and a relative split among white voters. Here's the latest fuel to that fire:

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id= D8UN6DBG0&show_article=1
Former Virginia governor Doug Wilder still sore at Clintons

"RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - The nation's first elected black governor said Saturday he is not ready to excuse comments former President Bill Clinton made about Barack Obama.
In campaigning for his wife last month on the eve of the New Hampshire primary, Clinton called Obama's opposition to the Iraq war "a fairy tale." Clinton suggested Obama had toned down his early anti-war fervor during his 2004 Senate campaign.

"Barack Obama is not a fairy tale. He is real," former Virginia Gov. L. Douglas Wilder told reporters at a Democratic fundraiser as the former president spent the day campaigning for Hillary Rodham Clinton in Richmond and three other Virginia cities.

The grandson of slaves, who was elected in 1989 in what was once the Confederate capital, endorsed Obama last month. Now Richmond's mayor, Wilder's comments still get the attention of the state's black voters, though his influence has waned since he left office 15 years ago.

Clinton also implied that an Obama victory in South Carolina would amount to a reward based on race, like the Rev. Jesse Jackson's 20 years earlier.

Wilder said the former president's comments stung him and other black voters and diminished their respect for Clinton.

"It's not just me (who) feels that; any number of people feel that," Wilder said. "A time comes and a time goes. The president has had his time."

Clinton spokesman Mo Elleithee said Bill and Hillary Clinton both "have tremendous respect for Governor Wilder. He has been a trailblazer who made it possible for both Senators Clinton and Obama to run for president."

In stops across Virginia, Clinton was careful Saturday to avoid any comment remotely critical of his wife's rival for the Democratic presidential nomination. Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia hold primaries Tuesday. "

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The media has accepted the false narrative of Obama (and A.A.'s) being victims of the Clintons  (and whites)and won't challenge them on the merits of their statements. They repeatedly as the above story does place facts in a context that is offensive to the truth.  

This is why Obama is our nominee. So now is the time for Senator Obama to make it clear that anyone making anymore racial statements, comparisons, allusions to President Clinton's comments, etc. will not be a part of the campaign or his administration.  He needs to say clearly that he rejects any racial politics.

I realize he will still win, but it will at least be an olive branch to whites, latinos and asians that he will stop this now.

This is hurting the ability of the party to come together.  They've won.  Leave it alone now.

The important thing for us to do as a party is to define what type of change we will fight for in November and over the next 4 years if we win.

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My fortune cookie last night: "The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."

Racism is rooted in ignorance. That is its only power it will ever have. Those who use racism to manipulate the masses will find a shrinking pool. That's because the hip-hop generation isn't just black. It's all colors. We are the first generation in America that did not experience a segregated world. We see things differently. Even Strom Thurmond figured this out. Can the rest of the Republican party?

Just in time for Halloween -- Jesus' General ridicules the fear of miscegnation the RNC tried to exploit. Boo!

The big story this week: the negative ads Bob Corker is running against Harold Ford in the TN Senate race. Progressive blogs across a broad spectrum weighed in on the "bimbo" ad and the "tom-toms" ad -- like Arianna Huffington, Jerome Armstrong, Steve Gilliard, Oliver Willis and others here, here, here and here. Corker must be seriously desperate if he and the RNC have to resort to some people's fear of "race-mixing". It's so bad that people in other countries are talking about it. Tennessee Guerilla Women has the international coverage. FYI, for minorities, it may be interesting to explore but ultimately it really doesn't matter if the racism is Southern or Northern-flavored. Whether it's overt or covert. It's binary -- on or off. It's not a matter of degrees. It's more like the proverbial iceberg: the part you can't see is usually a lot bigger than the part you can.

Racism is like smoking. What was cool in the 1920s and 30s is increasingly uncool today.

It's important to call out racism when we see it. Even racists like Kerry Healy with her "Inmates for Deval" cadre (consisting naturally of her own campaign volunteers) don't want to be tagged with the R word. Except for the hard-core white supremacists of course. Racism just doesn't play well in the suburbs anymore.

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