Robert Johnson, founder of Black Entertainment Television and one of Hillary Clinton’s impolitic high-profile supporters apologized to Barack Obama for his comments in a SC campaign event on January 13th insinuating that while the Clintons were in the trenches fighting for civil rights, Obama was in the hood taking drugs (Obama admitted youthful marijuana and cocaine use in his autobiography, “Dreams from my Fatherâ€):
“I am frankly insulted that the Obama campaign would imply that we are so stupid that we would think Hillary and Bill Clinton, who have been deeply and emotionally involved in black issues since Barack Obama was doing something in the neighborhood – and I won’t say what he was doing, but he said it in the book …â€
Johnson since released a statement of apology:
“I am writing to apologize to you and your family personally for the uncalled for comments I made at a recent Clinton event. In my zeal to support Senator Clinton I made some very inappropriate remarks for which I am truly sorry. I hope that you will accept this apology. Good luck on the campaign trail.â€
Bloomberg News columnist Margaret Carlson notes that the ugly episode “has validated the judgment of George W. Bush eight years ago to refuse to answer questions about his own alleged drug use, which many believe continued well beyond his teen years†[contextual link added by The Stiletto].
So the moral of the story is: Underhanded references to a candidate’s illicit drug use are inappropriate if the candidate is a black man, but not if he is a white man. Got that?
Note: The Stiletto writes about politics and other stuff at The Stiletto Blog.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackI guess in your over zealous attempts to be negative you fell to realize one important fact. While Barack Obama was honest enough to admit his imperfection and continue to show the world his growth from that place in his past. George Bush used the tactics of cover up and avoidance (which I’ve noticed most people prefer), while steadily showing the world that he has no intend of doing anything but making his pockets fatter.
Every time I come across these nasty little comments about black people I laugh because people are so caught up in the color of a person’s skin they lose touch with reality. No one is saying that it is ok to do drugs at any point; the fact is, if a person has admitted that they’ve hit some hard spaces in life and managed to turn themselves around is honorable (because like it or not no one’s perfect). To have someone deny the things they’ve done in their past in an attempt to deceive people into believing they are perfect is a con artist. I could care less who you vote for or support just realize that something is wrong in America and a change is needed. The change is unity. We all need to stop finger pointing and start getting real. No matter the size of you bank account, the color of your skin or your religion we are all in this country together and the more we fight each other the more we divide the country. Bob Johnson should apologize to Obama because he was trying to personally destroy the man because its obvious he did not have enough sense to come up with something substantial; like real issues that effect American people.
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