Clinton: Only White People are “Hard Working Americans”

Jonathan Adams

Clinton: Only White People are “Hard Working Americans”

Despite the many hard working people of color who have supported Hillary Clinton since the beginning of her campaign, she appears to forget them (or at least call them worthless in her run for the presidency) in a recent USA Today interview.

As evidence, Clinton cited an Associated Press article “that found how Sen. Obama’s support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me.”

We aren’t endorsing Barack Obama but rather any candidate that works to close the gaps of the racial divide by appealing to all Americans. It seems that isolating her success among working class white people to prove her electability may not be a good move, to say the least.

To further ensure us that her comments were not meant to be divisive Clinton adds, “These are the people you have to win if you’re a Democrat in sufficient numbers to actually win the election,” she said. “Everybody knows that.”

Jerome Armstrong says on MyDD.com in Clinton’s defense,

Now, when Barack Obama made his claim about the “typical white person”, it didn’t mean anything, he was just talking generalities; and the same thing with Clinton here, but even less so [but a ‘gaffe’ in the same manner]. Clinton clarifies that she’s talking about working Americans that Obama is not doing well with, which are typically white, and she’s “ugly and divisive”? This is a lame stretch. In fact, had she had not clarified it to say “white Americans” it wouldn’t have been a true claim, because Obama is doing very well among black working Americans.

Posted at 10:07 AM, May 08, 2008 in Elections | Permalink | View Comments

Comments

Sounds like a gaffe.

working, hard-working Americans, white Americans

She meant working class, white Americans. They're a demographic. She's just talking numbers you need to win. But it's a gaffe.

I am an American who happens to be of European decent. I too take offense to her statements. I also have a degree and work in an office. To me Hillery Clinton has stated that because I am not a blue collar worker that I do not work hard. That really runs against reality. I guess, that I do not count as a hard working American because the 45-60 hours a week that I work (without overtime as I work on salary) is not hard.

Who is the elitist now Hillary Clinton?