Showing posts with label The race card. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The race card. Show all posts

Saturday, August 9, 2008

The Case of John McCain and the "Illegitimate Black Baby"


Meghan and Bridget are featured in the above photo . . .

The Nation ran a story in January of 2008 about the "smear" campaign that was orchestrated by George Bush's presidential campaign team during the 2000 election.

Picture it . . . South Carolina, 2000 . . . John McCain has just won the Republican primary in the state of New Hampshire, and was favored to win the upcoming South Carolina primary. Enter, Karl Rove . . . It has been reported that Karl Rove developed and implemented a phone survey that included the question, "Would you be more or less likely to vote for John McCain...if you knew he had fathered an illegitimate black child?" Seriously, folks, this happened. Certainly, the inclusion of this question was not a coincidence as Senator McCain was, at the time, campaigning with his dark-skinned, adopted daughter, Bridget - from Bangladesh. The tactic worked . . . Bush won the primary . . . and the rest is history. Not to say that George Bush wouldn't have one the nomination and the eventual election anyway. . . but, we'll never know. The reason that we will never know is because people were swayed by fiction . . . but more to the point . . . they were swayed by racially charged fiction.

Of note . . . the article goes on to say that Senator McCain has hired Charlie Condon, former state attorney general of South Carolina, to work on his campaign . . . not too interesting . . . until you discover that Mr. Condon worked for the Bush campaign in 2000 and was a part of the aforementioned smear tactic . . . interesting stuff huh . . .

Click the link to read the whole story...

What's The Big Deal: Barack Obama And The "Bi" Racial Card

The "race" card is an issue that has been discussed at length within the context of 2008's Presidential election. Barack Obama is making history as the first African-American to be the presumptive nominee of either party. . . or is he . . . there has been much noise made recently about the fact that Mr. Obama has a white mother and grandmother . . . thus making him bi-racial . . . or does it . . . race is very much socially constructed, and therefore, how you, or others, identify you racially effects how they talk about you . . . and more importantly what preconceived notions they hold about you.

As much as the color of someone's skin should not matter in 2008, the reality is . . . it does. Therefore, the Obama campaign is beginning to talk about the "bi" racial card . . . Click the link to view a story about this issue.