Is this going to stop? "Obama Storyline Heads South: Journalists Follow Racial Angle to S.C."

[DeepModem Mom]

Maynard Institute for Journalism Education: "Journal-isms," by Richard Prince
Obama Storyline Heads South: Journalists Follow Racial Angle to South Carolina
February 19, 2007



Journalists took with them the recently minted Barack Obama story line — "is he black enough?" "Will black voters support him?" — as they covered the Democratic presidential candidate's venture into South Carolina over the weekend.

Michael D. Shear's Washington Post story from Orangeburg, S.C., said in its second paragraph:

"With a Kenyan father who was not descended from African slaves, Obama is unlike Southern black candidates, steeped in the slavery and civil rights struggles that tore at the region for more than a century. Neither is he like the white politicians, whose skin color automatically disqualifies them from the black experience."...

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As the Associated Press reported:

"The first-in-the-South contest here is seen as a test of candidates' abilities to reach black voters. Half of the state's Democratic primary voters are black."

The two major Chicago dailies each had an African American journalist covering their U.S senator as Obama went South.

"Black voters have found themselves in a dilemma," Dahleen Glanton wrote in the Chicago Tribune. "Should they support Obama and possibly make history or should they support Hillary Clinton and bring her back to the White House with her husband, a team many believe was the most dedicated to black causes since President John Kennedy?"

In the Chicago Sun-Times, columnist Mary Mitchell observed, "When Sen. Barack Obama arrived here Friday night for a rally at the Metropolitan Convention Center — his first trip to South Carolina as a presidential candidate — things were in an uproar. The day before, he'd been rebuffed by state Sen. Darrell Jackson, one of the most prominent and politically influential black men in the state, in a deal that, as the late Lu Palmer used to say, 'is enough to make a Negro turn black.'"...

...(S)ome remained fixated on what makes a black person "black."...

http://www.maynardije.org/columns/dickprince/070219_prince/

[HuffleClaw]

1. "Should they support Obama and possibly make history or should they support Hillary Clinton...

hmmmmm, or possibly they could choose SOMEONE ELSE???

i am real sick of the corporate media propping up ONLY these two.

[Radical Activist]

2. So a civil rights attorney

wasn't part of the civil rights struggle? Interesting spin.

On an unrelated note, Johnson was the one who got all the major civil rights legislation passed, not Kennedy. Kennedy never managed to get much through Congress.

[Bluestar]

3. They follow this story to the South

Yet they wouldn't walk across the street to find evidence that would rightfully convict Bush and Cheney of treason!