I do not see what the big stink there is about Ferraro’s statement although it can be taken as racist by those sensitized to the issue. I think that if you live and breath back and white issues in the US, hearing a statement like that can be construed as being out of line.

What of the TV talk programs where black representatives get to speak their views and there is mention by the moderator that they would back Obama because he is black? Couldn’t that be considered equally out of line?
Politics has been a dirty game for centuries, so there is no need to see that this statement as any dirtier than bringing up the race card on a Saturday night show. Not only that but the moderator suggested to the black person that he would not vote Obama because he was black. Well abomination, then! How clearer can the racial issue be in the US, and the moderator has not been charged for racial slurs or indecent suggestions on a national network!

Race aside, America does not look ready if voters are now skewed as mostly black for Obama and white for Clinton. Anybody could have seen that coming in a country where Martin Luther King was assassinated 40 years earlier.

Now the Democrats have some big names behind them like the Kennedy clan and the Terminator has put his weight behind the Republicans who nominee is busy visiting Iraq for the eight times although that is not supposed be a nifty ploy for votes. I am sure that Republicans have made statements that could be seen as equally as intolerant of any minority group outside their white majority. Would Clinton be solving the race issue by eliminating Ferraro for her statement? Not at all. She had the courage to say what was on her mind that many whites in her entourage are only keeping to themselves. I would not have removed her from the campaign committee but would ask her to keep her opinions to herself. Obama is there to represent a united nation and it is clear he is doing so no matter what color he is. Is America far from the efforts to integrate blacks and whites that was the issue while King was alive, with major Democratic candidates using the race and gender cards to swipe at each other? That Obama has succeeded with a larger number of delegates across the United States than Clinton shows great changes from the days where blacks had to sit at the back of buses in southern states. But total acceptance of a potential leader for being a capable leader because of his personal abilities and not his color leads me to think that America still has a long way to go.