We in the afrosphere and many of us in the AfroSpear have devided that we're not going to simply sit by while Hillary Clinton schemes to find a way to claim the nomination, even though she is behind in earned delegates and behind in the popular vote. Plus, we're tired of being insulted by Hillary Clinton's surrogates, who need not say anything at all about our skin color, and yet they don't seem to be able to talk about anything else.
And so, this is the press release that we in the Afrosphere Action Coalition (ACC) we are issuing:
For Immediate Release
From: Afrosphere Action Coalition, March 24, 2008
RE: Day of Blogging for Voter Justice, Tuesday, March 25, 2008
The Afrosphere Action Coalition (AAC) is circulating an online petition to the Democratic National Committee (DNC), to super-delegates, and calling upon Senator Hillary Clinton to “face the reality of the earned delegates count, concede defeat, and thereby contribute to healing a wound which is opening and continues to widen” in the Party. Therefore, the AAC sponsors a “Day of Blogging for Voter Justice.”
As the Democratic nomination contest wears on, Senator Clinton wages an increasingly divisive campaign, throwing the “kitchen sink” at Senator Barack Obama, recklessly alienating and dismissing as inconsequential those states with large Black populations; white states like Iowa and Vermont, and states with Republicans, like Wyoming and Montana. In fact, Clinton discounts every state that she fails to win.
Behind in the earned delegate count and the popular vote, “Clinton’s desperate political tactics threaten to split the long-standing Democratic Party coalition.” “We utterly reject Senator Clinton’s seeming endorsement of the other party’s candidate’s experience, should she fail to win her own party’s nomination. It’s unprecedented.” If she cannot win enough earned delegates under the current process, “Clinton seeks self-serving rules changes or to win in a smoke-filled room.”
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, 2008 Democratic National Committee Convention Chair, announced:
“If the votes of the Super-Delegates overturn what’s happened in the elections, it would be harmful to the Democratic Party.” http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/16/us/politics/16delegates.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&sq=pelosi&st=nyt&scp=4
The Afrosphere Action Coalition concurs and therefore calls upon the DNC, super-delegates and Hillary Clinton to “end her relentless war against established Party principles and constituencies and concede defeat in the nominating process.” Only by dramatically rigging the process could Mrs. Clinton hope to win, which voters would reject as invalid. “Hillary’s divisiveness could lead to four more years of George W. Bush’s disastrous economic and foreign policies.”
Therefore, on Tuesday, March 25, 2008, the Afrosphere Action Coalition will conduct a Day of Blogging For Voter Justice – “Concede Now, Hillary”. Coalition members and friends will blog to insist that our votes, earned delegates and established rules be honored. “We must unite behind our nominee in March, not August.” “Hillary Clinton cannot win and must concede defeat now.”
Petition: http://www.petitiononline.com/ACUDP2/petition.html
“Day of Blogging For Voter Justice” Bloggers: http://www.blackperspective.net/index.php/hillary-must-quit/
Afrosphere Action Coalition Coordinating Committee
Mr. Francis L. Holland, Esq. Mr. Daz Wilson
Mr. D. Yobachi Boswell Mr. Wayne Hicks
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