Posted on 04/19/2008 12:36:39 PM PDT by maggief
Clinton works to sway black women Appearance with Angelou underscores key role of gender DAVID INGRAM
WINSTON-SALEM --
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On Friday, the New York senator held a forum at Wake Forest University with Maya Angelou, one of the nation's most prominent poets -- and also a black woman.
"Hillary Clinton is a woman who takes responsibility for the time she takes up and the space she occupies," Angelou said, reading from a piece of prose she wrote in Clinton's honor.
"She has been there, done that, seen that and has still risen," Angelou said.
Black women who vote Democratic face a unique choice this election year -- between one presidential candidate who shares their gender and another, Barack Obama, who shares their race. So which will they choose?
In an hour-long conversation that drew repeated standing ovations at Wake Forest, Angelou chose to mention Clinton's gender.
"I watched her as she was on the front page of every paper in the world," Angelou said, alluding to Clinton's response to the Monica Lewinsky scandal. "And I watched her stand."
Clinton returned the compliment, calling Angelou "one of my `sheroes.' "
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Maya Angelou, one of the most affected, pretentious, worst “poets” and biggest phony on the planet.
She’s a total joke. A major baloneyist.
I am not surprised she likes Maya Angelou they both have the same level of veracity.
Sheros sounds also like the brand name for a line of transparent underwear or perhaps a hair cutting appliance.
I guess one might want to use a hair cutting appliance were one to wear tranparent undergarments.
Only a complete and total dumbass could utter that word without laughing.
The INSTANT we learned that Maya Angelou was named to a Lifetime position as “Professor of American Studies” at Wake Forest University -— my sainted wife’s alma mater, all contributions came to an end....
That was a “Bridge To Far” down the road of Affirmative Action or Political Correctness for us.
BFF’s Oprah and Maya campaigning for different teams.
And “Sir Edmund” Hillary remembers when black “sheroes” were being lynched and burned in black churches while she was ducking sniper fire back in AK when she was a little girl and ...
Are they Americans or an off shoot society worthy of an hyphenated title as Americans?
The thing that kills me is that this person was exposed as a fraud and all of the Bubble Gummers get breathless in admiration, I’ve seen it happen, beats the hell out of me.
Cry me a river...cry me a river...cry me a river over you. Ha,ha,ha. Go hilllereee...cry, cry, cry and cry some more.
Maya, Shero-na
I darn sure know Hillary ain’t in no ways tarred...
I’ve always thought the same of Angelou.....her stuff sounds stupid....but, then, I’m no “official art critic” just a bitter, white gal.
She “has risen indeed”! lol
Gee, who’s the real Messiah here? I thought it was NObomba.
Gee, and here I thought voting on the basis of race or gender was racist or sexist.
I’d rather spend hour with a Vogon than 10 minutes listening to Angelou.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vogon_poetry
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