Clyburn warns Dems: African-Americans Matter!

As an African-American, I have to say that Clyburn has been our voice in the media the past few days.  What he has been saying  to the media (NYT, WaPo, Reuters, FOX, MSNBC, CNN, etc) is what African-Americans feel which is that Hillary is trying to damage Obama so he loses to McCain so she can win in 2012, Blacks are ANGRY at the Clintons for what we perceive as racial coding, and we feel that we are being taken for granted in the Democratic party.

Check out what Clyburn said the the WaPo.  We DO matter!

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/...

CLYBURN SPEAKS TO WAPO:

"South Carolina Democratic Rep. James Clyburn warned today that if the heated Clinton-Obama contest continues on its present course it could have dire consequences for African American support of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, should she win the Democratic nomination, and on African American faith in the Democratic Party even if she does not.

'I may not know a lot about what drives some voters, but I know a little bit about African American voters," he said, in an interview with The Trail. "And if they feel as if they're being used, they'll stay away. They just won't engage in the process.'

'African Americans are really engaged in the process and I don't think we oughta be saying anything that might discourage these people or in any way marginalize them," he continued. "I am very concerned that if we keep talking as if it doesn't matter ... that Obama gets 92 percent of the black vote ... since he only got 35 percent of the white vote, he's in trouble. Well, Hillary Clinton only got 8 percent of black vote. [That's] like saying that 92 percent, they don't matter.'..."

THIS IS WHAT WE FEEL WHEN THE MEDIA GOES ON AND ON ABOUT HOW OBAMA CAN'T GET THE WHITE WORKING CLASS VOTE:

"Clyburn, the most senior African American in Congress and the third-ranking Democrat in the House, today said he was also disturbed by the vast quantity of press coverage focused on Obama's relationship to white voters, which he felt minimized the significance of African American voter choices. 'I think that the way everybody has been reporting this Pennsylvania thing, it's almost saying black people don't matter. Only thing that matters is how white people respond. And that's what bothered me. I think I matter.'..."

THIS IS CLYBURN VOICING OUR CONCERNS:

"I'm speaking on behalf of African American voters all across this country, many of whom I've talked to," he said. "When I'm having young college students coming up to me and telling me how they don't understand how I and other black political leaders allow black community to be so trivialized. One lady wrote me a letter saying, 'What is it about you that allows you to take this from Bill Clinton?'

"This is not about who is the nominee. It is about what kind of position our party is gonna be in whenever we get a nominee."

WHAT I THINK ROVE IS TRYING TO DO:

The more and more I watch McCain trying to reach out to the Black community by visiting the 9th ward, going to Selma, etc is that McCain wants to be there to pick up the pieces if the Democratic party fractures.  I think that Rove and Co. are encouraging the fracture by they themselves helping to keep Hillary in the race by praising her, Repubs voting for Hillary in Dem primaries (Operation Chaos), bashing Obama, etc.

I HAVE A FEELIING THAT CLYBURN ISN'T JUST VOICING JUST AFRICAN-AMERICAN CONCERNS...