Prominent Black Leaders Are
Abandoning Clinton
Sen.
Hillary Clinton's campaign has had a bumpy last few days: She replaced her
campaign and deputy campaign managers and has lost support among women, older
voters and white voters in three primaries, all in one week. But she may now be
suffering her biggest loss yet: the support of Black leaders.
Rep. John Lewis, an elder statesman from the civil-rights era and one of
Clinton's most
prominent Black supporters, said he planned to vote for Sen. Barack Obama in
hopes of preventing a fight at the Democratic convention, reports The
New York Times. Clinton, who has set her sights on Texas and Ohio, and
former President Bill Clinton prepared for a new fundraising blitz to try to
counter Obama's edge of several million dollars in campaign cash, reports the
Times. Although Lewis said he applauded Clinton for her historic campaign, he told
reporters that he and other prominent Black party leaders have been moved by
Obama's recent campaign victories. Rep. David Scott of Georgia
was among the first to defect, saying he will not go against the will of the
voters in his district.
Student Charged With Killing Male
Teen Who Dressed as Female
Prosecutors
filed a charge of murder with hate-crime and firearm enhancements Thursday
against a 14-year-old boy who will be tried as an adult in the school shooting
of a classmate, reports The Associated
Press. Brandon David McInerney shot Lawerence King in the head Tuesday
morning during class at E.O.
Green Junior
High School in Oxnard, Calif., with more than 20 students in the room
at the time, police said. King has been declared brain dead but remains on a
ventilator. McInerney faces murder charges that carry a maximum penalty of 25
years to life with an additional maximum 25 years for the firearms enhancement.
King, according to classmates, sometimes came to school wearing makeup and high
heels.
Feminists to Clinton: You Don't
Represent Us
Some
leading feminists are saying a Clinton defeat would not uproot years of
working for equality. This Democratic presidential nomination is not the litmus
test for feminism's future, a letter to the editor in The
New York Times noted. The growing sentiment among women voters who aren't
particularly fond of Sen. Hillary Clinton is that they feel more empathy toward
her than anything else, noted Maureen Dowd in an op-ed column. Many even note
that they see double standards they hate--when male reporters described
Clinton's laugh
as a cackle or her voice as grating, when Rush Limbaugh goes off on her wrinkles
or when male pundits seem gleeful to write her political obituary. Other critics
say Clinton
often aims to use gender to her advantage, or to excuse
mistakes.
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