Living Life Abundantly

As I write this, helicopters are circling over head and police are conducting house to house searches in my Black working class neighborhood… Yet I’m writing about this…but there is a method to the madness.

Hey Hillary, what do you know about Compton? I know you snuck in and out and got your 90220 shirt before Super Tuesday, but what do you really know about Compton? How will you address the issues in my community? Will you just build more prisons like your husband did. Bill is known as the “incarceration president.” Hmmm, thats how he was able to help create all of those new jobs in the 90′s, right? Under his watch prison became big business, costing tax payers what? $70 Billion+ per year? Considering what you said about southern White working class folks in ’95 (“Screw ‘em” that is what you said right?) If you felt that way about them, I am almost certain that what goes on in Compton is the least of your concerns.

There’s all this hoopla about Barack Obama’s“problem” connecting with working class white voters. Interestingly, there has been no talk about Hillary Clinton’s problem connecting with Black voters.

Barack Obama does not have a problem with connecting with working class white voters, some just have a problem connecting with him. We don’t hear about it that much, but its a known fact that there are some white people that have indicated that they will not vote for a Black person and that race is a factor in their voting decision period. (I’m sure there are some Black folks that feel the same way).

I just wonder if the people, especially the working class white people we hear about in the media every day… believe that Hillary Clinton has their best interest at heart because she’s white. I also wonder what other decisions they make based on race and why.

I know that Hillary’s campaign has done a great job of trying to paint Obama as an uppity elitist negro, while making her seem like the “home town” beer drinking gun shooting white working class every day woman trying to get by! People are actually believing this nonsense. It’s ridiculous.

Umm hello… That’s not who Hillary Clinton is at all, she may have some Scranton roots, but she hasn’t really lived the life of a ordinary working class white woman! More folks have more in common with Barack Obama than they do with Hillary Clinton.

Lets take a look at some not so ordinary facts about the Former First Lady:

1. Hillary Rodham Clinton is married to Bill Clinton (The 42nd US President).

2. Hillary Rodham Clinton was America’s First Lady for 8 years.

3. Hillary Rodham Clinton has been a Senator since 2000.

4. Hillary Rodham Clinton was Arkansas’ First Lady.

5. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s family made $109 MILLION just last year!

6. Hillary Rodham Clinton graduated from Yale Law School.

7. Hillary Rodham Clinton graduated from Wellesley College.

She can throw back as many beers and rub elbows with as many locals in working class communities as she wants to for the cameras, but Hillary Rodham Clinton is not the the girl next door. Most working class white voters have more in common with Barack Obama than they do with her.

In 2008, its shameful that any American would base their voting decisions on the race and ethnicity of a candidate. It doesn’t surprise me, but it certainly disgusts me.

We have a woman who lied about being under sniper fire and God only knows what else she’s lied about… She voted for a war that has cost the lives of young soldiers and is costing us ###

SEE: Iraq War Cost. Didn’t her husband dodge the draft?

Hillary, with plenty of help from Bill, has run a dirty campaign throughout this contest. Her husband, is also a known liar (I did not have sexual relations with that woman… I didn’t inhale… I didn’t say that…). Can we believe anything that comes out of his mouth?

Bill Clinton has used race and has himself played the race card, while accusing others of playing HIS game. Speaking of playing games, Bill Clinton played golf at an exclusive WHITE ONLY country club in Arkansas, what was that about? (I’m sure he’d say but that was a mistake, my office is in Harlem now).

This 90′s power couple wants back in the white house at all costs.

Working class white folks how can you believe Hillary? How can you trust her and her husband? Working class white folks that will only vote for a white candidate, why is that?

We live in the United States, but are so divided. At some point, we must all see reconcile our issues, read between the lines, and acknowledge who is doing the dividing and why?

Together We Stand, Divided We Fall!

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” — Martin Luther King Jr

“The measure of a man is what he does with power.” — Plato

“The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.” — Ann Landers

“Success is not the measure of a man but a triumph over those who choose to hold him back.” — Bill Clinton

The Measure of Man (author unknown)

Not – How did he die? But – How did he live?
Not – What did he gain? But – What did he give?

These are the things that measure the worth
Of a man as a man, regardless of birth.

Not – What was his station? But – had he a heart?
And – How did he play his God-given part?

Was he ever ready with a word of good cheer?
To bring back a smile, to banish a tear?

Not – What was his church? Not – What was his creed?
But – Had he befriended those really in need?

Not – What did the sketch in the newspaper say?
But – How many were sorry when he passed away?

These are the things that measure the worth
Of a man as a man, regardless of birth.

OK now I’ve heard it all. Andrew Young declares “Bill is every bit as black as Barack!” Now that— is the biggest fairytale I’ve ever heard. This ongoing joke about Bill Clinton being Black or that he was the first Black President is getting out of hand.
Supposedly, Bill Clinton is honorary Black because:

• He comes from a single-parent household.
• He was born poor.
• He comes from the working-class.
• He played the saxophone on the Arsenio Hall show.
• He eats McDonalds.
• His sex life was called into question despite his professional achievements.

None of the above mentioned circumstances produce the melanin or characteristics used in determining race and/or ethnicity, nor do they arouse institutional racism. While Bill’s personal background may play a role in how some Black people relate to him, his background is not much different from many Americans around the country (Black, White, Hispanic, Native, etc..), minus the playing the sax on Arsenio of course.

Bill Clinton is not Black, nor has he ever been Black, nor will he ever be Black. That is an unchanging fact people! This propaganda of him being black is ridiculous. Please, stop it already.

If Bill and Hillary Clinton are really that involved, in-touch, and active in Black issues as some would have us all believe:

• Why did Bill Clinton snub Black Bloggers and meet with a panel of all white bloggers to discuss politics in HARLEM?
• Why did Hillary Clinton have Bob Johnson speak at her Columbia town meeting? (She must have missed the Enough is Enough initiative which directly involves Bob’s creation, BET. The Clinton’s are not in tune with the Afrosphere).
• What black issues have the Clinton’s been ‘deeply and emotionally involved’ with? (the gentrification of Harlem?)

I think what really doesn’t sit well with me about Andrew Young’s statement is that it actually seems to question Barack Obama’s “blackness.”

The bottom line:

What does either of them being Black have to do with the 2008 Presidential Election?

According to Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards have been “given pretty much a free ride,” and Bill Clinton says “Give me a break. This whole thing is the biggest fairy tale I’ve ever seen.”

A fairy tale or fairy story is a fictional story that usually features folkloric characters (such as fairies, goblins, elves, trolls, witches, giants, and talking animals) and enchantments, often involving a far-fetched sequence of events. In modern-day parlance, the term is also used to describe to something blessed with unusual happiness, as in “fairy tale ending” (a happy ending)[1] or “fairy tale romance”, though not all fairy tales end happily. Colloquially, a “fairy tale” or “fairy story” can also mean any far-fetched story. —Wikipedia

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