Video: Alice Walker Endorses Barack Obama
Alice Walker should get a Pulitzer Prize for having the most eloquent, insightful endorsement of a Presidential candidate in the history of this country. This is beautiful.
Alice Walker should get a Pulitzer Prize for having the most eloquent, insightful endorsement of a Presidential candidate in the history of this country. This is beautiful.
October 15, 2007 at 5:45 pm
The endorsement of Barack Obama by people like Alice Walker even if the likes of Congressman John Lewis don’t, is all the more important if only because he represents the best and the real from Black America, and proudly endowed as an American with attributes only given to a few. Voting for him even if you think he might not win is in fact making a statement that: Despite racial oppression, given the opportunity, African Americans can reach the sky. They are just as capable as anyone else. Never mind that there are those who jump ship that have no confidence in their own. Their being is still trapped in a paroxysm of slave-master mentality that is charactrized by the absence of self-worth and self-esteem. The self-hate that is embodied in the back community manifests itself in self-destruction. Those who will not vote for Obama have failed themselves for failing to seize this historic moment that may never avail itself in our lifetime
October 16, 2007 at 4:13 pm
Great statement stramdapol. I think you should also email your comments to Andrew Sullivan. The phenomenon of blacks not supporting Obama was featured on his blog last week.
January 28, 2008 at 11:06 am
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