Monday, October 15, 2007

Bill Clinton's Racial postcard.

Here is a snipet of the Pagesix.com article.."A RACIALLY insensitive moment from Bill Clinton's boyhood is coming back to haunt him. It's a postcard the future president sent his grandma Edith Cassidy in 1966 showing a black youth eagerly polishing a gigantic watermelon, titled "Hope, Arkansas - Home of the World's Largest Watermelon." Clinton, 19 at the time and a sophomore at Georgetown University, wrote: "Dear Mammaw, Thought I would send you one of your cards just to prove I'm using them! My tests are over and I'm just starting the second term. Hope you are well and happy . . . Love, Bill." Online auction house auction.com, which is selling the card Wednesday, calls it "a throwback to the outrageously broad portrayals of African-Americans of a century earlier." It notes Clinton wrote it "in the midst of the most active civil-rights movement in American history," and would go on to become "one of the greatest champions of racial minorities among modern American presidents." A Clinton spokesman didn't get back to us."

I wonder what he is going to say in rhetoric of this postcard. He might have to move out Harlem? Iono.

Offensive or Not?



This is something I just came across while reading the WeeklyDig. It's a local magazine in the Boston Area. I found this bordering the offensive line and really wanted to post this so that i can get some opinions on it. IDK.