I am always amazed when white folks understand when racial nuances are being used. If we want bigotry to stop white folks have to confront it. This voter it taking responsibility, he has decided not to just sit back but call it out. As a black person its clear that racial nuance (Michelle is so angry, Barack is so aloof or elitist) is an underline tension that follows people of color and is a condition we live with, the only way Barack can respond is to chuck-it up to a case of politics, but we all know what going on.
Update Flashback: Hillary Clinton On Southern Working Class Whites In 1995: "Screw' Em"
......In January 1995, as the Clintons were licking their wounds from the 1994 congressional elections, a debate emerged at a retreat at Camp David. Should the administration make overtures to working class white southerners who had all but forsaken the Democratic Party? The then-first lady took a less than inclusive approach.
"Screw 'em," she told her husband. "You don't owe them a thing, Bill. They're doing nothing for you; you don't have to do anything for them."
The statement -- which author Benjamin Barber witnessed and wrote about in his book, "The Truth of Power: Intellectual Affairs in the Clinton White House" -- was prompted by another speaker raising the difficulties of reaching "Reagan Democrats." It stands in stark contrast to the attitude the New York Democrat has recently taken on the campaign trail, in which she has presented herself as the one candidate who understands the working-class needs. "I don't think [Obama] really gets it that people are looking for a president who stands up for you and not looks down on you," she said this week....
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