Open letter to Bob Johnson
April 15, 2008
Dear Bob Johnson,
Everyone’s entitled to their own opinions and to vote for their own candidates. Tavis Smiley, Rep. Maxine Waters, and Maya Angelou are all prominent black people who have chosen to support Hillary Clinton. Although it is not the same choice that I have made I can respect that and respect them. It’s you I have a problem with.
Please do us all a favor and shut the h*ll up and sit the %%^ down. Your coonabalistic, Uncle Ruckus, running off at the mouth is not helping your candidate nor is it helping African Americans that support her, so just shut it up! If she’s your candidate of choice then you support her, you don’t keep tearing Obama down, especially as a black person. But I keep forgetting that you’ve made your fortune tearing down black folks so maybe you just don’t get it. ( Black Exploitation Television anyone?)
This mess right here…
What I believe Geraldine Ferraro meant is that if you take a freshman senator from Illinois called ‘Jerry Smith’ and he says I’m going to run for president, would he start off with 90 percent of the black vote?” Johnson said. “And the answer is, probably not.”
“Geraldine Ferraro said it right. The problem is, Geraldine Ferraro is white. This campaign has such a hair-trigger on anything racial … it is almost impossible for anybody to say anything.”
Was not only uncalled for but also baseless and shows your level of ignorance. Obama didn’t start off with that much black support, in fact many were debating whether or not he truly lived the “black American experience”. I was at one of Obama’s early rallies (before they stopped campaigning in Florida) and the crowd was mostly white. Very few were black but you think he’s getting a brotha pass?? Please miss me with that!
This quote represents all kinds of stupid to me.
“I make a joke about Obama doing drugs (and it’s) ‘Oh my God, a black man tearing down another black man’,” Johnson said.
It is and it’s sad! Once again if you support another candidate that’s fine, tell me something about your candidate. Don’t come up with some half cracked “joke” about someone’s past. Bob “Sambo” Johnson, you are so out of touch with black voters on so many levels. Whether you said it or Geraldine Ferraro says it, both of ya’ll are wrong! When did being black become an advantage?? Particularly in the political arena? Please tell me how in a nation filled with racial profiling, systemic racial discrimination and serious gaps in everything when it comes to people of color that being black is a political advantage?? Bob have you gotten so detached from what it means to be a normal black person that you just don’t get the ignorance in those statements?
Shame on you, Shame on you for not knowing when to shut up! Support who you want to support, Vote for who you want to vote for, but stop spewing ignorance at a national level. You are not doing Hillary Clinton any favors.
- signed
the Brown Sugar Pages.
p.s. this right here
Johnson disputed the notion that Obama has built a broad coalition. Most of his support, he said, comes from African Americans and white liberals but not white, working-class Democrats.
“I don’t think he has that common — what I call `I-want-to-go-out-and-have-a-drink-with-you — touch,” Johnson said
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Is funny to me. I remember in 2000, when people polled said they’d rather go have a beer with Bush than Gore. Well you see how well that turned out.
Shannon the Tampa Diva
mrkeyz
It’s unfortunate that Mr. Johnson had the audacity to minimize Obama’s success. The statement comes from a man who made millions from the support of predominately African Americans. Now, he has the gonads to script a letter urging Obama to select HRC as his VP. Please understand that even HRC does not believe it’s wise for YOU (Mr. Johnson) to petition Obama on her behalf. I would strongly suggest that you stick the letter up your gluteus maximus. Since you sh*$, and think out of the same location. Bob, where’s the love for your brother?