2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumFortune: Racial Joke by Hillary Clinton, NY Mayor Leaves People Cringing
http://fortune.com/2016/04/11/racial-joke-by-hillary-clinton-ny-mayor-leaves-people-cringing/Clinton and de Blasio were joined onstage by Leslie Odom Jr. in costume as Aaron Burr, whom he plays in the hit Broadway musical Hamilton. Clinton thanked de Blasio for his endorsementwhich many pointed out came rather late in the gameand ribbed him, Took you long enough.
The mayor replied, Sorry, Hillary, I was running on C.P. time.
The abbreviation refers to the stereotype of Colored People time, and several people in the audience could be heard gasping or groaning. Odom, who is black and whom the New York Times suggests was in on the joke, rebuked him, saying, I dont like jokes like that, Bill.
Clinton dryly replied, Cautious politician time. Ive been there.
The exchange prompted pushback online, both from bloggers and social media users.
Clinton, who has performed well with black voters in early primaries, will depend on their votes in the New York primary on April 19.
Starting to spread all over the place.
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)Christ- at least get your facts straight.
GeorgiaPeanuts
(2,353 posts)I posted my OP using the exact article title, take it up with Fortune magazine. That is how MSM is reporting it
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)in posting a misleading headline, hum? Too cute by half. And who the hell are you telling me to "check my tone"???
GeorgiaPeanuts
(2,353 posts)If you didn't start off this tangent being rude I would not have had to ask you to check your tone.
morningfog
(18,115 posts)GeorgiaPeanuts
(2,353 posts)morningfog
(18,115 posts)The Toothpaste guy.
Accept my apology.
GeorgiaPeanuts
(2,353 posts)COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)that little gem up- Free Republic?
mhatrw
(10,786 posts)COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)that was obviously expected. Instead she tried to turn it into something else to salvage his error.
mhatrw
(10,786 posts)Here is the "humor" breakdown.
Did you hear the one about the colored people and the cautious politicians?
Both of them can be abbreviated CP and both of them are totally slow!
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!
It is humorously self-depreciating for powerful white politicians to compare their own lack of initiative and decisiveness to that of colored people!
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!
morningfog
(18,115 posts)COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)and ad libbed something else trying to save him from his error.
Gwhittey
(1,377 posts)Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)As if their stilted bad acting was proof enough.
Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)One would have to be totally naive to not think Hillary runs the show.
BernieforPres2016
(3,017 posts)But it went viral on social media, and when the NYT put out a story on it about 24 hours after it happened, everybody seems to have picked it up.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)This is actually an inside joke, comment, observation, whatever you want to take it. I do not think the intent was racist but...
Here is the second point, I don't care how high you are in the political hierarchy, neither of them should have ahem, gone there. They are both white. And Bill is far from a racist person, and he probably knows this.
That said, now it is spreading. And is now free.
Of course racism is a serious issue, and she knows she messed up by trying to blame him.