Cynthia McKinney was our guest tuesday, your feelings!
15 July 2008
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Green Party Candidate Cynthia McKinney was our guest this week. Here is what you thought. Keep it coming!!!
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girl , cynthia Mckinney , WHY YOU Really
RUNNING `~I Believed YOU –Has HILLARY Paid
ya OFF , GIRL . MS. Remember if you skirm 4 % off the black vote , guess what
~~~if you capture ( this much > MCCAIN WINS
Why now…..when an African American has the best opportunity to become President and blacks are suffering the most would you further divide the vote. There are other ways to get the point across…is this about you or what’s best for our community? We just won’t do what’s best for the whole. I am disgusted!
HI BILL DR.JOHN has a song out RIGHT PLACE WRONG Time.This is the wrong time.REP.Mckinney knows politics and she very aware of the situation and whats at stake.She should go somewhere and sit the HELL DOWN’.HER personal ego has taken her on a magic carpet ride.NO THANKS SISTER.
”I’M REALLY UPSET WITH MS MCKINNY,HAD SHE LOST
DAM MIND, THIS RRALLY RANKS UP THERE.”
She said she’s, “Trying to get something different, by doing something different…”
Bull. Somebody paid her to make noise and put an 8-ball in Obama’s game. I bet if we check her bank account…
Has Sister Cynthia McKinney had access to Sen. Obama? Has she personally raised her issues with the direction of DNC with him? Does she see her desires for our community important enough to derail an opportunity to beat McCain?
LeRoi Simmons
Dear Bill, Thanks for having former Rep. Cynthia McKinney on this morning and treating her respectfully. She was informative and we need to address the ISSUES with our Delagates to the Democratic Convention. The Black Community must force the Democratic Party to address our issues. That is the way progress takes place. ALL PROGRESS is made by PEOPLE’S MOVEMENTS not by the politicials. Elected officials have to compromise their principles in order to get things done. We have to guide them, make them do what is right for us. We have to put our issues on the table now. WURD CAN GIVE US THE PLATFORM TO DO IT.
WHY WHY WHY Now! This is typical of black folks
with the crab in the barrel. Why didn’t she run
with the other candidates last spring. For the first time in history we have an opportunity to have a black president. Why does she want the platform now. She should have spoken to the DNC
and The Obama camp to express her point of view.
DO I SMELL A DEAD CAT ON THE LINE! DOES THIS HAVE FRAGRANCE OF THE CLINTON MACHINE. WAKE UP PEOPLE
PLEASE DON’T LET ANYONE STEAL OUR DREAM. STAY FOCUS. PUT BLINDERS ON AND GET TO THE FINISH LINE.
PLEASE SHOW SOME LOVE RATHER THAN HATE. HATE DESTROYS AND KILL. FOR THE CHRISTIANS OUT THERE
WE NEED TO CONTINUE TO LIFT THE OBAMA FAMILY UP IN PRAYER. I BELIEVE THAT NOW IS THE TIME FOR ALL PEOPLE TO VOTE FOR THE RIGHT CHOICE. OBAMA IS THE CANDIDATE. THIS IS DESIGNED BY GOD.
Cynthia Mckinney is the best hope for all Americans. Obama and McCain are cut from the same cloth, and will give us nothing but more war and poverty. McKinney is the right person at the right time. Wake up, people! The country is going down to hell in a handbasket, and only McKinney is willing to tackle the problems that need to be solved. Only McKinney tells us the truth. Only McKinney represents us. Obama and McCain represent Big Money. Time to get real and earn our citenship, yo!
Bill, thanks for allowing, Rep.Cynthia Mckinney, to express herself with no interruptions. Remember, how can we forget, her bravely standing up, for the voiceless American people, and candidly talking, truth to power; even when everybody else, were intimidated scared, and jumping on, the anti-Iraq war bandwagon.
Why are black people SO DAMN GULLIBLE!!!! Is there really any comparison between Obama and Mckinney?What has he said or done to make black people so devoted to him? I haven’t heard him make one positive statement about black people yet. As a matter of fact it seems he goes out of his way to condemn us at every turn. On the other hand Rep. Mckinney’s past is littered with her love for the black people…but blacks are so media driven and the powers that be have told you Obama represents the “NEW GUARD”. They must mean the right wing FOX news channel type of black man…one who is willing to easily dismiss over four hundred years of undue and unjust treatment by this country…one who, like Clarence Thomas ,believes that if blacks would just stop crying and pull themselves up by their collective bootstraps everything would be allright…one who apparently has made a silent promise to white America that if elected he would never mention the systematic racist policies of America and UNLESS THEY BRING IT UP won’t even mention race at all. Don’t get me wrong I would love to see the black man get ahead in this world but not THE WHITE MANS BLACKMAN which he obviously is!!!
This is very frustrating and getting sooo old !!! Cynthia McKinney CAN NOT win. Any percentage of votes she may get in November threatens The Prize. Cmon Black people! Keep your eyes on the prize. We should be much more politically sophisticated by now-after all that we have gone through here. Stop getting distracted. Stay focused.
This is so typical of our people. Why is she now wanting to run against Obama. There is absolutely no way nor chance that this woman can or will win and she knows it. All she will be able to do is pull votes from Obama which could possibly cause him to lose. Additionally, she will go down in history as the stumbling block which stood in the way of the first viable Black candidate obtaining the Commander-in-Chief position.Consequently, we get McShame. Four more years of Bush failed politics and “100″ years more in Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan. I believe it is either one of two reasons possibly both…she was paid by someone or her ego just became grandiose. It is so sad that we as a people can and will not galvanize behind one another. It’s strategized, practiced often, in place, and working well. The world sees it and uses it against us. Initially, I held her in high regard but because of this recent action, I have no regard for her. In fact all of his Black opposition seems to emanate from those who were never able to reach his level as a candidate, resent the fact that he has achieved more than they ever were able,simply put can not bear to see another one of us accomplish the highest position in the nation, and resent the fact that he is half White. You have Tavis Smiley, Cornell West, Jesse Jackson, Chas. Rangel, Al Sharpton, Eric Dyson, etc., and now Cynthia McKinney, who are all cut from the same cloth of resentment and jealousy. Grown men!! What has this woman done to run a country? Cynthia try to run for governor because at this moment you are nothing more than a distraction and will not win. You are actually worse than Hillary Clinton and Bill to execute such an action. Nader lost and so will you. Shame on you. This will only cause me to campaign the harder and more for Obama. Cynthia McKinney, you will not get my vote.
Rasil,
you said,
“You have Tavis Smiley, Cornell West, Jesse Jackson, Chas. Rangel, Al Sharpton, Eric Dyson, etc., and now Cynthia McKinney, who are all cut from the same cloth of resentment and jealousy.”
Point of clarity, Dr.Cornell West and Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, are both, strong supporters of Senator Obama. Also, I don’t really think, in my opinion, with Cynthia Mckinney, that she is operating from jealousy perspective. Rather, because she is in debt, the Green Party then becomes away for her to continue her political criticism of the American system.
Also, can you tell us where you heard Rev. Al Sharpton go against Obama? The only obvious blockers which you mentioned are, ‘Jackson’ and ‘Rangel.’ However, I appreciate your comments…
I think what is so comical is that I keep reading “why now…,” when should the Green party announce it’s candidate for President? During the same time that the Dem and Pubs were running primaries so that they (and their more populist issues!) would be drowned out and ignored by the corporate controlled media? The same corporate controlled that all but ignored the populist movements of the likes of Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, who discussed much more substantive issues than anyone else running has addressed like
1. The coming North American Union (please google, or watch Lou Dobbs on CNN for more info)
2. The illegality and need to abolish the IRS
3. 9-11 Truth
What makes having a Blackman as president have all Black people in American so enraptured that you turn off your collective thinking caps or think that this is anything more than another symbolic gesture like the many before this?
Remember at the same time that we have more Black elected officials in this country than ever before, we also have more black people who are incarcerated, living below the poverty line, or just disenfranchised than ever before. It’s called the illusion of progress, and frankly I’m sick of illusions, I want the truth! And Cynthia speaks truth!
Cynthia Mckinney’s philosophical and Black radical viewpoint, like the late great Ida B.Wells-Barnette, operates outside of the mainstream paradigm of thinking, organizing, behaving, and socializng. Mckinney then becomes the revolutionary spokesperson, unlike Jesse Jackson, for the masses of voiceless people suffering the pain of political exploitation from the onslaught of Americanism here in the West.
As a result, the Green Party then becomes her political springboard and workplace where she can freely articulate her radical viewpoints uninterruptive. Manytimes, Mckinney, can be heard vacillating between, and at times confusing, Black classical socialism and what I call revolutionary Black Pragmatic nationalism.
Hannibal,
Thanks for your response. West and Dyson may now be strong supporters, but early on I heard Dyson on an afternoon talk show long before Obama was nominated, say that he supported Hillary. Glad to know that both are Obama supporters. You are indeed entitled to your opinion and I do respect it. Given your perspective which many are now declaring, I find this rationale equally as appalling. One would seize the opportunity firstly,to continue/obtain financial gain, and secondly, to have a voice. Unconscionable to say the least. Never wrote that I “heard” Sharpton go against Obama. However, early on again, in Obama’s run, Sharpton, Tavis (particularly), Jackson and West continued to drive home the point that Obama never says what he plans to do to help the Black community. Anyone understanding the history of Blacks in America would know that if Obama would take those kinds of actions or make statements to help Blacks he would never have accomplished as much as he has. There are those who just can not shut their mouths and allow this man’s strategy to play out. He knows exactly what he is doing and I trust him far more than any other candidate. He has already demonstrated what he would do for us in Southside Chicago. Opps. Erratum!! Dyson should not have been included in the jealousy piece, but I hold firm to Sharpton, Jackson, Rangel, and especially Smiley. Sharpton says little. I find the both of them as I always have…opportunist, searching for the mike or the camera. As for McKinney, she will on some level reduce the Black votes for Obama. As I said prior, she has NO chance of winning and to take this opportunity to use The Green Party to articulate to the detriment of Obama is futile and self serving. Not surprised. When will we begin to galvanize behind one another? Asians, Mexicans, Dominicans, etc., all seem to have that one common bond.
This woman is a hustler and is desperate!! I believe she knows damn well she has NO chance of winning. I believe she is ‘put up’ to be a spoiler and take votes away from Senator Obama,thus helping McCain. I have NO respect for her!!
To Bill Anderson:
I finally heard the broadcast you had with Cynthia Mckinney on Tuesday July 15th, 2008. Base on the information that Cynthia Mckinney presented concerning the democrats and what the Green party stands for in relation to our needs as African Americans,I can understand why she is running for president. Does she has a chance to win? The answer is no. Will she possibly take votes from Senator Barack Obama? The answer is yes. However, is it imperative to elect an African American for president if he does not address our needs? If the majority of white america vote for Barack Obama for president, Does it really mean that race relations in this country has changed? The answer is no. Here are the reasons: 1. To accomodate the majority of white folks in this country, he had to disown his pastor who was his mentor for 20 yrs, married him and told the truth about how white America has colonized, tortured and implemented policies designed to impede African Americans progress in this country. 2. Even when he is telling the truth, he must watch his words carefully so it would not offend white citizens in this country. Remember the comment he made about folks and their guns and clinging on to religion which seems to be more important than losing their jobs. Also, 3. He had to wear an American flag on his lapel because most of white America had a problem with him not wearing one. And 4. He had to apologize to the press because General Wesley Clark made a statement about Senator McCain’s service in the military which was the truth. IF Senator Barack Obama has to watch his words carefully concerning standing up for the rights of African Americans, and poor people in this country to accomodate the majority of white citizens in America, then race relations in this country has not change. Race relations in this country will only improve when majority of white Americans can accept the error of their ways concerning the oppression of people of color in this nation and internationally. Also, elect an African American for president who will stand up for racial injustice, poverty and the economy of this nation. When that day comes, then it will truly be a change in America. But it will not be a change for the better in America if a African American candidate for president can not be honest about the racial and economic injustices placed on his people and the poor people of this nation. Timothy Walker
Good morning Billy, I’m used to saying Billy, do you prefer Bill? (smile):
Anyway…having Cynthia McKinney on your show recently was somewhat a waist of time, I feel. She knows what she’s doing, and running against Senator Obama, at this time, is wrong. She obviously, has been seeking her opportunity for gaining extra attention, at whatever the costs. Poor thing!!!!!
Rasil,
Thanks for your informative response. I too respect your entitled opinion on these issues. However, although I know it appears that Rev Al Sharpton is an opportunist; for me,I tend to disagree with those subjective and polemic viewpoints coming from critics of his. Now, if and when racism stops existing as a social phenomena, than I would question the pep rallies, demonstrations, boycotts, radio activism, etc. These type of social vanguard survices, protest activities, and others, are the necessary organizational functions/tools which any group of people need to keep in place which have been the victims of 400 years of social, economic, and political injustices. So, I personally, don’t mind him getting paid! Also, guess what? the white race has been getting paid under the skillful rubric of capitalism (I know ‘Race’ is a social construct).
Furthermore, much of your post suffers from a lack of specificity, bordering on just allegations and unsubstantial genralizations(lack of evidense). For example,when and where did you hear Dr.West challenge Obama about speakng to Black issues? Given these blind reactionary accusations, I find them, equally appalling and distasteful. However, you make an excellent point about peoples inability or unwillingness to let him play out his action plan. But, than, you skillfully vacillate back and forth from being his defender and social critic. It would be useful if you stated who you plan on supporting for president?
Moreover, Cynthia Mckinney, is our modern day Ida B. Wells Barnett. She is difiantly fighting and speaking truth to power by any means necessary. So I applaud her self-determined, undaunting tenacity as a Black woman in this racist and sexist country. So, your comments towards her, in my opinion, were doltishly insidious. I do, however, appreciate this critical colloquy on these important issues.
In all, I try and not pay too much attention, though its hard, to the subjective, caustic, and acrimonious critics of Obama. However, I do always appreciate an educational dialectical interaction.
Good converations…
I wonder how many listeners knew of Ms. McKinney prior to her nomination for the Green Party. Fyi, she has been workikng with them since the beginning of the primary season, the party only just now announced their nominee. You will never see Barack Obama tear down Donald Rumsfeld in front of any committee demanding to know where the $3 trillion dollars he lost has gone. Will he ever question anyone as to what happens when Halliburton flies out tens of thousands of women and children to be sold as slaves? Will he ever confront any of the criminals as to what really happened on 9-11? No he will perpetuate the lie that the Boogie Man (AL CIA-duh) is hiding in every nook and cranny so now we must move our troops back to Afghanistan. He says we will unilaterally bomb Pakistan if they don’t cooperate. He wants us to go after the “Islamio-fascist terrorists” though he won’t use the term. He He insinuates that our current Sec. of Defense Robert Gates would be kept on under his admin. What part of change don’t I understand? When you vote for the lesser of two evils, it is still evil. Cynthia McKinney has done her part for the country far longer and with greater courage than Barack ever will. You are being lied to and you want to believe for the color of his skin. I hope more babies dying in Afghanistan can help the blind sleep better at night.
Click and Clack (As the Wrench Turns) did an excellent parody on campaigns. The Green Party knows that Ms McKinney will not win but they will receive funds from the government for running a candidate. It is a win win situation for the Green Party and their candidate. Click and Clack is aired on PBS on Wednesday nights.
Your program promo containing the green party candidate Ms McKenney I feel should be pulled. I see it as an unpaid commercial, giving a point of view which you admit you don’t agree with. The less I hear of her bid, the better.
She sounds like a space cadet. I might as well run too. Wow, I have no real solutions either. Power to only the selected people of the good o’l US of A. I would’nt follow to water much less drink anything she was offering if I was dying of thirst.
Jerry,’space cadet’: where are you getting your resource information from about her? Cynthia Mckinney, while I disagree with her running, she would always warrant my deepest respct,love and admiration! Again, I understand opinions, but where is your information supporting her being a ’space cadet?.’
I applaud what Mrs. Mckinney is doing as a symbolic gesture, but I’m quite with the electoral college in full force this November - what she is doing will have little effect on the results of the campaign.
I was once a strong Barack supporter, until I researched 2 very important items:
1) Who are his Top Advisors? and
2) Who are his major financial backers?
You will be shocked at both these answers. Dont fall for the ‘Rock Star’ before you do some research. I once brought a pair of fake Air Jordans’ sneakers because they looked like the real thing - they didnt hold up once I got on the court. Take care.
Hey Bill
Great interview, bad timing for this green party candidate to enter the race.
We only wish Cynthia McKinney a good future career.
Mrs. Mckinney has a good heart but has come up against a big machine and she is not of the same bloodline like all (43) of the past Presidents including Senator Obama.
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