If Bill Clinton was so racially progressive why did he fight to keep discriminatory laws in place and fight to make a discriminatory death penalty easier to carry out?

Can someone find out who bud white is?  

david

To be fair I think Bush is the most racially progressive president in our history and Clinton is second in terms of administration.  Its his only legit achievement.

But Clinton was all for minorities in his cabinet before having minorities in his cabinet was cool.

Hmm... a reprint of an article from No Quarter. I'm sure this is a non-biased and honest look at the situation...

What a load of garbage. Obama encourages the trashing of poor white people? You really need to curb your remarks because that is absolutely not the case.

There are a few lines that are a bit over the top, but I agree with the vast majority of what you've written.  I said on the night of the PA primary that the Obama campaign & surrogates were going to crank up the race issue big-time.  It took less than 4 hours - "bradley effect" articles were out and it began snowballing from there.

That is the irony of this whole controversy surrounding Wright - it was the decision of Barack's campaign to plunge us into a trench war of racial politics.  Now what remains to be seen is whether the benefits from that decision outweigh the consequences.

Great.  More NoQuarter bullshit.

First of all calling Reverend Wright american hating is a very naive statement. If he were so American hating, why was there no rioting or marching on the streets of Detroit when he gave the keynote speech, at the NAACP Fund Raiser last night. Are you also calling The NAACP an American hating organization? Secondly, I seem to remember A formerly racially progressive President, pulling the race card in some of his speeches and interviews, oh, and wasn't that Hillary Shill, Geraldine Ferraro playing the "Race Card". All denounced by the candidate Clinton, of course.

The liberal blogs including this one are full of the racial blackmail ploy essentially we'll take our ball home if you don't give him the nod. This is nihilism pure and simple and it's somewhat in the heat of the moment but it must be apparent now that he is going to have a huge problem with middle and blue collar voters in the fall. I don't know where this is going to be honest although I'm as certain as I can be if he gets the nod he'll lose. If this happens there is going to be a huge blowback from the mainstream of hte democratic party while she'll be sitting pretty as the de facto leader of a party that will almost certainly strengthen its position in the house and senate. His political career will largely be over or at best limited to long term attendance as a senator. A shared ticket with her at the top is the best solution.      

"Working class white will go with McCain if Hillary is not the nominee."

This has been the core of every, and I do mean every, argument for Hillary Clinton's candidacy since it became clear that she couldn't catch up with Obama in delegates.  Yet no one has accused her of racial blackmail.   I don't think it would occur to most people to do so, unless they were obsessed with race - which the NoQuarter crowd most definitely is.

Anyway, "Bud White" needs to keep his propaganda straight - race-baiting is either a sign of a candidacy in trouble, or a brilliant but devious ploy to win the black vote in South Carolina, without which Obama would surely be nowhere.  Depending on the week.

What else can White America do for Black America?  

We have done and given all we can.  It is up to the "Black Community" to now finish the job on their own.  It's time they stop separating themselves from America.  Start thinking of themselves as AMERICANS rather than Black Americans or African Americans.  And start speaking English.

Jeremiah Wright's complaint that we are attacking the "Black Church" is another point.  I thought it was the Christian Church.  I didn't know Jesus divided the church between black and white.  I never read that in the Bible.

This election was not about race but Obama chose to make it so.  He started by parading with Oprah in the first days.

We have given all we can and I personally feel no "white liberal guilt" about things that happened one or two hundred years before I was born.

I have been a white liberal Democrat all my life.  

I don't have a racist bone in my body.  But if someone thinks I'm a racist because I chose not to vote for a man that thinks it's "his time" or that I OWE anybody anything, there is nothing I can say.

Well, we OWE him nothing. We OWE no particular "community" nothing.

I love black people, I love white people -- I just love people and I am sick and tired of the division.

Maybe it's a good thing that Obama chose now to demand his "entitlement".  Get it out in the air.  Bring it to the light.

It's time for the free ride of the past 40 years to come to an end.  There is no affirmative action for the presidency.