They just won't give up.
Obama's advisers say their biggest challenge is introducing him to voters who certainly know who Clinton is, but may not know much about Obama or even that he is black.
Obama Calls Out to Blacks in S.Carolina
By NEDRA PICKLER
The Associated Press
Tuesday, July 24, 2007; 8:55 PM
CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is reaching out to fellow blacks in his first advertising effort in South Carolina, a minute-long spot scheduled to begin airing Wednesday on 36 radio stations with predominantly black listenership.
The Illinois senator has been careful not to be defined strictly as a black candidate and risk alienating white voters, but he and rival Hillary Rodham Clinton are in a close fight for the black voters who traditionally make up half of the Democratic primary turnout in South Carolina. The radio ad allows Obama to target his appeal to black audiences.
Clinton enjoys strong support in the black community and is married to former President Clinton, who is wildly popular among black voters. Obama's advisers say their biggest challenge is introducing him to voters who certainly know who Clinton is, but may not know much about Obama or even that he is black.
The ad makes it clear with excerpts from Obama's speech to the NAACP. He ticks off problems facing the community _ more black men in prison than in college, serious illnesses disproportionately affecting blacks and the argument that it takes a hurricane to show the rest of the country about problems of race and poverty.
"I know what you know," Obama says. "Despite all the progress that's been made we have more work to do."
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Why couldn't they just say that he's not as well known
and has to introduce himself further. I, um, think they know he's Black...sigh....
Anyone who doesn't know
Anyone who doesn't know Obama is Black by now doesn't have enough functioning brain cells to retain the knowledge.
How do you think the
How do you think the Associated Press's coverage of Obama thus far relates to or grows out of the "Hate that Hate Produced" piece on Malcolm done by M. Wallace? Are they filtering the same mainstream perceptions of race into their coverage? Of course. this piece is pretty mild compared to the piece that claimed Obama was inciting black voters to riot, but they do follow a similar logic.
Creating Reality For Black Votes
This is precisely how the media functions with regard to black folks. Even if white folks are acting in a relatively benign manner many of them are simply incapable of grasping the fact that black folks have a view that is reality based too. Yesterday, for example, I heard Terry Gross, the host of the radio program Fresh Air, introduce a segment about the late Philadelphia-based singer Lorraine Ellison by saying that "you would have to be a real connoisseur of soul music to remember Lorraine Ellison."
I immediately thought that Gross' declaration might be true if you had been a Jewish girl growing up in Buffalo, New York but if you were a black teenager in 1966 how could you have ever forgotten Ellison's hit Stay With Me? The perceptions, memories, ideations and thoughts of black folks are seldom, if ever, incorporated into any analysis regarding social, political or cultural phenomena in America.
I think this particular
I think this particular journalist is confused about a lot of things, not just race.
http://thinkonthesethings.wordpress.com/2007/07/26/prometheus-6-the-a-in-ap-stands-for-absurd/
Pickler has a history of
Pickler has a history of shilling for Bush. She is not confused at all.
ubstu34: What the AP is
ubstu34:
What the AP is doing is different. They are creating bias, emphasizing and hardening it, instead of merely assuming it.