Annapolis Capital Punishment

Elsewhere on this blog, CP scribes that the rapid rise of Obama is important mainly because he won in a state that is 95% white. Of course race still matters, as the title of Cornel West's book attests, but as today's Sun shows, you just gotta love it when a newspaper or tv station wants to know what Black men are thinking, they go to a barber shop. Have you noticed that? I guess they should go to a country club to know what white men think or to a nail salon to know what women think. Of course the media swarmed to Iowa to know what Iowans think, but do Iowans represent America? (Hint: answer yes if you grow corn or pigs) Furthermore, it's playing the race card by making news about Obama racial in nature while that's not what he is about AND then quoting others to confirm that it is or is not about his color either. So dear Sun, which one is it???

www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation/politics/bal-te.md.obama05jan05,0,3435778.story?coll=bal_tab01_layout
Without any sense of irony whatsoever, they even headlined their piece "Obama spurs talk on race".

The Sun quotes MD Attorney General Doug Gansler (White) who says,
"He's not someone who runs as an African-American," said Gansler, co-chairman of Obama's Maryland campaign. "He's saying he's the most qualified, most-experienced person to run, and he just happens to be African-American."

And with more irony, The Sun notes that in 1984, a generation ago, Jesse Jackson came close to being the Democratic nominee for president.

On the other hand, State Senator Ulysses Currie (Black but I do not know if he was getting his hair cut)called Obama's victory "the most significant political event that has ever happened in this country." That's about the most significant hyperbolic statement in his political career.

Perhaps the most telling quote of all was the final one in the article when one of the men getting a coiff said, "I'm 37 years old and I don't vote for nobody....But I will vote for him."

Yeah that about explains it. The man has had nearly 2o years of voting eligibility and he "don't vote for nobody." Like CP always says, the non-voters always get the candidate they want. When the Sun wants a news clip from a Black man, they go right to the clipper.