Serving Miss Hillary: A Slave Narrative

TNU admires the Clintons.

No, seriously... we do.

Bill was the first President to actively give people of color a high profile presence in his White House Cabinet and lip-serviced black people to death about his crusade for Civil Rights (though he never did sign that Civil Rights Bill by the way). Because of our excitement for being invited to sit at the benevolent massah's table, many black people - rich and poor alike - have developed a best-friends-forever bond with the Clinton legacy.

But, let's consider a few facts. While Clinton remarkably balanced the United States budget by his second term (::golf claps::), over in Black America we saw poverty spike, violent crime almost triple and watched HIV and cancer-related deaths increase while those of other groups fell.

But every now and then Bill would eat a piece of fried chicken in public or, even better, throw us a party. Yay!!!

Maxine Waters would show up at the party in in bright red lipstick and pearls... Then Magic Johnson wearing something purple and too large. And here comes Russell Simmons (alone, Kimora isn't allowed at State dinners). Clinton's affirmative action presidency was cute. Lots of diversity photo-ops. Meanwhile the black mass got the short end of the stick.

So for those of us who are behind Hillary, because we think she'll do what Bill did for black people... Be careful what you wish for...

Let's also examine all this "experience" Hillary's got.... Oh wait, she's never had ANY real executive experience. ONLY 6 years of legislative experience as a New York Senator (compared to Barack Obama's two years, how negligible a difference is that?). She led a health care initiative that Bill threw her in '94 but that failed. And I'm confused. She says she has 35 years of experience, but she's 61. Girl, what were "executing" at 27, rockin' those balled up head bands?

And, honestly, the only thing that can really prepare you for being President of the United States is being President of the United States. Period.

Also consider that we're voting for the President of the free world -- a world that's seen a lot change since 1992. And hasn't a commitment to "changing" guards always been the strength of American democracy?

I'm not telling anyone who to vote for, kids (if Barack wasn't an option TNU would be riding w/ Edwards), but let's at least be --unafraid-- to move forward.

Writer Trey Ellis on Hillary:

Hillary: You're the opposite of George Bush. He is the smiling incompetent, you're the stone-faced hyper-competent. A good friend of mine who worked for you and your family calls you Tracy Flick, Reese Witherspoon's brittle, brown-nosing character running for school president in the movie Election. It's probably already too late but you need to become a real person again. There is some crazy realty show coming on where this guy tries to deprogram beauty queens and turn them back into real women who no longer wave with just an upright, cupped hand. You need someone like him to get you dressed down, hair loose and let us know from the heart what you dream about for the future of this nation. Listen to Obama's magnificent Iowa victory speech. Don't talk to us about fear of the unknown, talk to us about the magnificent new American century that you would like to share with us.

Source -- HuffingtonPost

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