Sort by The Daily Dish (Free subscription) - 05/23/2008 - YouTube
The US state of Kentucky has a large white working class population similar to the state of West Virginia, which Hilary Clinton won overwhelmingly las...
Sort by The Daily Dish (Free subscription) - 05/23/2008
From al-Jazeera (via Kos), some raw reporting not widely aired in the US:
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Sort by Daily Kos (Free subscription) - 05/23/2008
That's from Al Jazeera, because no American news outlet would dare run such a piece. The subject matter is too explosive. dnA fills in some of the historical background . After emancipation, coal mining companies sought an advantage over unions by hiring former slaves as scabs since, the unions were racist, wouldn't allow blacks as members. The companies didn't have to fulfill many obligations to...
Sort by feminist blogs (Free subscription) - 05/24/2008
What do you think? Is she sticking around in case Barack Obama is assassinated ? All these slips add up. Liza writes : To this blogger, Hillary Clinton has waged a campaign on bringing out the inner white supremacist out of many Americans who are frothing at the mouth over the prospect of having to vote for a black man. Of course, many other pundits and bloggers gave her the benefit of the doubt. Then...
Sort by Lawyers, Guns and Money (Free subscription) - 05/22/2008
Check out especially the interview with a coal miner about 2:15 in: The white people has put the negroes in the back of the bus for years, and if we're not careful we're gonna be in the back of the bus and they're gonna be in the front. That's interesting, and suggests an answer to why whites in Appalachia are so much more resistant to voting for Obama than anywhere else; it's driven by economic insecurity,...
Sort by culturekitchen (Free subscription) - 05/23/2008
Shameless . Despicable. Unfit to be President Of The United States. As it appears reported in the New York Post Hillary Clinton today brought up the assassination of Sen. Robert Kennedy while defending her decision to stay in the race against Barack Obama. "My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right? We all remember...
Sort by The Mahablog (Free subscription) - 05/23/2008
Al Giordano writes for The Field – The Field can now confirm, based on multiple sources, something that both campaigns publicly deny: that Senator Clinton has directly told Senator Obama that she wants to be his vice presidential nominee, and that Senator Obama politely but straightforwardly and irrevocably said “no.” Obama is going to pick his [...]
Sort by BuffaloPundit (Free subscription) - 05/23/2008
Posted by Christopher Smith Sometimes, it takes Al-Jazeera to help us see our country as it really is. This is a phenomenal piece about race in America and the forces that Barack Obama will face in the general election. It really doesn't have anything to do with Hillary or some ginned up story [...]
Sort by SIVACRACY.NET (Free subscription) - 05/22/2008
Via Matthew Yglesias:
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This is a fascinating video, which I learned of at Daily Koz. Now that we’ve dragged some of those wacko preachers out into the limelight , maybe it's time to focus those cameras on the bigots. Sunshine is great disinfectant. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8J9laUNgL4
Sort by Bang the Drum (Free subscription) - 05/22/2008
Let's call it what it was in Kentucky and West Virginia. Race-based. Listen to the reporter in the middle of this video talk about how the educated Kentuckians have never once said it's about race. Well, of course they haven't! If they can rely on a different, more nuanced but still bogus [...]
Sort by GOOFYBLOG (Free subscription) - 05/23/2008
This time, Eastern Kentucky. A place I’ve never been, and have no desire to ever visit. “I’m not racist or anything like that, but I just don't want someone in there like that” guh guh guh guh. “Them white people has put the negros in the back of the bus for years, and if we’re [...]
Sort by Maverick Tribe (Free subscription) - 05/22/2008
Why does Barack Obama lose so badly in West Virginia and Kentucky? All...
