How Does This Matter?
Jan 7th, 2008 | 6 responses
What is the motive behind FOXNews exposing which black celebrities are and aren’t backing Obama? FOXNews.com – Obama: No Cash From Denzel, Spike, Motown, Despite Oprah Backing
I guess if you think all blacks are (or should be) the same, it would be confusing as to why some would and wouldn’t support them. Especially after Midas Oprah endorsed him. If you think black people are different and can think on their own about who and what they send money to, it’s a pointless list. This may be alarming to some people, but we don’t all place race as our reason for supporting a candidate.
And what’s with adding Motown to the list? I didn’t even know Motown was still in business, but I guess, according to Roger Friedman, it’s worth noting. I wonder if he checked on Ashford & Simpson? Thinking that this is relevant is what you get when you treat people as members of a group instead of individuals.
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Just downright dumb. NEWSFLASH: Obama won Iowa regardless of their support. NEWSFLASH #2: He's running for POTUS, not just President of Black America. NEWSFLASH #3: Motown?!?! Are some people in media that out-of-touch?
Just who I run to for news about what Black folk are doing….Fox News.
A large majority of voters who backed Obama in Iowa were white. Many of the celebrities that backed Obama were white. Should they be exposed for not “backing someone of their own kind”?
Its blatant racism to assume that black celebrities should automatically back the black candidate, regardless of whether they agree with him on the issues or not……………………….But, just what you'd expect from Fox, whose journalistic credentials were flushed down the toilet a long
time ago.
Fox has obviously missed what Obama is all about.
“A large majority of voters who backed Obama in Iowa were white.”
And not all those voters were under 30, 35, or 40 years of age.