If you haven’t done it already, you’d better get to researching your candidates a little deeper than party line, skin color or drive-by has-been media conglomerates … you’ve only got 13 days left.
Look at their actual body of work and the issues they support or reject. Take a look at transcripts of what they’ve said or done and see which candidate is more above reproach.
Or, how about take a look at what one candidate wrote in his own books (to make a profit):
From Dreams of My Father: ‘I ceased to advertise my mother’s race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites.’
From Dreams of My Father: ‘I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother’s race.’
From Dreams of My Father: ‘There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white.’
From Dreams of My Father: ‘It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.’
From Dreams of My Father: ‘I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn’t speak to my own. It was into my father’s image, the black man, son of Africa , that I’d packed all the attributes I sought in myself , the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.’
And the most disturbing of them all:
From Audacity of Hope: ‘I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.’
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