I don’t really know what people mean when they say “playing the race card.”\u00a0 To me, 9 times out of 10 it’s really means “stop talking about race because I’m uncomfortable” or it means “don’t accuse me of racism.”\u00a0 But you have to laugh at some of our white American politicians like Bill “My Office is in Harlem” Clinton.<\/p>\n
Clinton is at it again complaining that the Obama camp “played the race card” on him.\u00a0 It all started with an interview with a Philadelphia radio station where Clinton made the race card comment.<\/a>\u00a0 The next day when asked about the comment Clinton denied it. Check out the video and the text summary on this New York Time blog<\/a> (Clinton has his finger up in the air, which is usually a sign that he’s lying or angry.).\u00a0 Here is the text of the exchange where Clinton tells his lie:<\/p>\n Mr. Memoli: \u201cSir, what did you mean yesterday when you said that the Obama campaign was playing the race card on you?\u201d<\/p>\n Mr. Clinton: \u201cWhen did I say that, and to whom did I say that?\u201d<\/p>\n Mr. Memoli: \u201cOn WHYY radio yesterday.\u201d<\/p>\n Mr. Clinton: \u201cNo, no, no. That\u2019s not what I said. You always follow me around and play these little games, and I\u2019m not going to play your games today. This is a day about election day. Go back and see what the question was, and what my answer was. You have mischaracterized it to get another cheap story to divert the American people from the real urgent issues before us, and I choose not to play your game today. Have a nice day.\u201d Mr. Clinton: \u201cHave a nice day. I said what I said, you can go and look at the interview. And if you\u2019ll be real honest, you\u2019ll also report what the question was and what the answer was.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Then in a subsequent interview he followed up with this gem of a comment:<\/p>\n In the same interview, he offered a full-throated defense of his record with African-Americans, adding: \u201cYou gotta really go some to play the race card with me. My office is in Harlem, and Harlem voted for Hillary by the way.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Nice variation of the some of my best friends are black line isn’t it?\u00a0 I guess we should also note that there were several irregularities in the voting in NYC<\/a>, so some have questioned Clinton’s “lock” on Harlem.\u00a0 In spite of past black support\u00a0for Clinton, Clinton has never been the pro-black politician people make him out to be.\u00a0 His policies were not particularly helpful to African Americans, and he was more than willing to play on white fears of blacks when he went out of his way to attack a rapper in one of his campaigns.\u00a0<\/p>\n I\u00a0get a chuckle out of\u00a0people like Clinton and Ferraro making racist comments, and then attempting to use the condemn the condemners strategy to make themselves look like victims.\u00a0 I think I need to file this under “whiny white people.” What I’d say to Clinton is–if you can’t take the heat get out of the kitchen.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I don’t really know what people mean when they say “playing the race card.”\u00a0 To me, 9 times out of 10 it’s really means “stop talking about race because I’m uncomfortable” or it means “don’t accuse me of racism.”\u00a0 But … Continue reading
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\nMr. Memoli: \u201cRespectfully sir, though, you did say \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n