BLACK MAN RUNNING
by Malik Isasis



Barack Obama, US Senator from Illinois has been getting the rock star treatment from the press when he decided that he would consider running for President. The first African-American man to have a serious run at becoming the first “Black President.” Hillary Clinton who hasn’t announced her candidacy, could become the “first woman” as president. These two firsts has the media salivating.

The Middle East is engulfed in flames, a genocide consumes Darfur, an Iraqi refugee crisis drowns Jordan and the death of an American city goes on, unnoticed. However, all the media can do is manufacture drama between Hillary and Barack. The new Democratic Congress won’t be sworn in until January 4, 2007, and yet the Presidential Race of 2008, is getting more coverage than the said crises in the world.

Unbelievable.

I think Barack is nuanced and understands that the media is not his friend. He knows that the media is setting him up for a glorious fall. Howard Dean can testify to this truth. Dean, who knows what it’s like to be a media-darling, was a front-runner in the 2004 Presidential Race, but it was when he lost a primary race in Iowa to John Kerry and tried to rally his supporters by cheering, “Yaaah!” that the media took him out like a professional hit job. It was if everything was already aligned. Dean in his campaign, did threaten to break up large media conglomerates, is there a connection?

The media is not your friend Barack.

They are trying to make you precious, make you hire a grip of overbearing political consultants who will neuter your political passion (remember John Kerry?)…you’re going to become too safe to speak your mind, too safe to offend anyone, too safe to speak truth-to-power, just like your possible running mate, Hillary Clinton.

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