leaders<\/em> noirs au Congr\u00e8s, James Clyburn, qui est un des chefs de la majorit\u00e9 d\u00e9mocrate de la Chambre.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tClyburn est tr\u00e8s inquiet, d’une part des intentions affich\u00e9es par certains de faire pression, voire forcer Obama \u00e0 se retirer \u00e0 cause de cette hostilit\u00e9 des \u00e9lecteurs blancs, d’autre part des cons\u00e9quences au niveau des \u00e9lecteurs noirs (traditionnellement d\u00e9mocrates), de l’unit\u00e9 du parti d\u00e9mocrate, et, d’une fa\u00e7on g\u00e9n\u00e9rale, de la situation des rapports inter-raciaux aux USA. Clyburn, qui n’a pourtant pas pris partie pour l’un ou l’autre candidat, attaque notamment avec force le comportement d’Hillary Clinton qui cherche une \u00e9limination d’Obama par des manoeuvres aupr\u00e8s des super-d\u00e9l\u00e9gu\u00e9s.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tDans trois grands Etats, essentiels pour l’\u00e9lection, on trouve des sondages impressionnants pour les intentions de vote. En Floride, 27% des \u00e9lecteurs disent qu’ils refuseraient de voter pour un Noir, 20% dans l’Ohio et 19% en Pennsylvanie. En plus existe le fameux ph\u00e9nom\u00e8ne de la diff\u00e9rence de comportement entre les r\u00e9ponses aux sondages sur une question aussi politically correct<\/em> et le comportement dans l’isoloir. (\u00abWhen it comes down to it, they are not going to vote for a black man, said Jim Whitworth, 43, who wore a Harley-Davidson motorcycle T-shirt and a chestful of Hillary for President buttons to a Clinton rally in Fayetteville, North Carolina. He said the more he learnt about Obama, the more he found him scary. I don’t feel like I’m a racist, but this country is. People say they will vote for a black person, but when they get to the polls they won’t.<\/em>\u00bb)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tVoici quelques-unes des d\u00e9clarations de Clayburn et d’autres sur cet aspect si particulier de la candidature d’Obama:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\t\u00abWe’ll be playing with fire if we interfere with the voters’ choice, James Clyburn, the party’s chief whip in the House of Representatives, told The Sunday Times. African-Americans will feel cheated.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbClinton is hoping to win by persuading superdelegates the party officials with a free vote and the power to tip the nomination at the Democratic convention in August to back her, even if Obama is in the lead once all the primaries and caucuses have been held.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbBut Clyburn, who has yet to endorse either candidate, believes this path would be suicidal for the Democrats. African-Americans were not the only ones who would feel betrayed, he said. Barack Obama has brought in a lot of young voters for the first time, and they’ll feel cheated too. Many Clinton supporters are equally adamant that their candidate must win because white Americans are not going to elect a black president. Either way, Democrats are on a collision course.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t(…)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\t\u00bbThe Democratic party is splitting over the most ugly, divisive issue in America. The contest began as an exciting, inspirational battle between two widely respected candidates with the potential to make history as the first woman or first black president. Yet it could end in bitterness and defeat at the hands of the Republicans if the breach is not healed.<\/em> […] <\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbWhen Obama won in Iowa, a predominantly white state, in early January, it was a moment of promise. Some people were moved to tears as crowds chanted: Race doesn’t matter. Clyburn has a different opinion. Race always matters, he said. That slogan was more about young college graduates telling people, Race doesn’t matter to us’.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t(…)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\t\u00bbThe vexing question is whether the superdelegates are willing to countenance a civil war in the party by throwing the nomination to Clinton even if she lags behind Obama in delegates. Some equate this to telling black people to get to the back of the bus, as they did during the years of segregation.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbKevin Marsh, 57, an Obama supporter in Fayetteville, said: If Hillary wins, there are countless numbers of people of colour who are going to say she stole the election and they’ll say, I’m not going to vote at all’. It could get really, really bad.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tLa question est ici envisag\u00e9e du point de vue du parti d\u00e9mocrate et essentiellement pour ses cons\u00e9quences \u00e9lectorales. Elle commence \u00e0 prendre des allures si graves qu’elle semble d\u00e9sormais avoir le potentiel de largement d\u00e9passer ce cadre pour \u00e9ventuellement redevenir une des crises centrales aux USA, comme elle l’avait \u00e9t\u00e9 dans les ann\u00e9es 1950 et 1960. La phrase cit\u00e9e ci-dessus (\u00abSome equate this to telling black people to get to the back of the bus, as they did during the years of segregation<\/em>\u00bb) montre que l’\u00e9tat d’esprit est assez exacerb\u00e9 sur cette question, et avec du temps pour une aggravation dans ce sens, pour susciter une \u00e9volution vers un climat de crise nationale. Ce serait bien entendu un r\u00e9sultat en apparence paradoxal de la candidature Obama que de faire rena\u00eetre une crise des tensions raciales aux USA. En apparence, disons-nous, parce qu’il nous a toujours sembl\u00e9 que l’int\u00e9gration des Noirs dans les ann\u00e9es 1960 avait \u00e9t\u00e9 essentiellement formel, juridique, etc., jusque dans la politique des quotas, mais qu’il n’avait pas vraiment modifi\u00e9 le coeur du probl\u00e8me. Il est possible que les USA nous en fassent, les mois prochains, la d\u00e9monstration en grandeur r\u00e9elle, ajoutant une crise de plus dans une situation qui n’en demandait pas tant.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tInutile d’ajouter que cette affaire contribue et contribuera de plus en plus \u00e0 ajouter au ternissement de l’image des USA \u00e0 l’\u00e9tranger. Les derniers partisans de l’American Dream<\/em>, surtout chez les intellectuels lib\u00e9raux europ\u00e9ens, arguent qu’au moins dans le domaine racial, les USA ont r\u00e9solu leur probl\u00e8me d’une fa\u00e7on exemplaire. Tout cela pourrait bien \u00eatre bient\u00f4t dit au pass\u00e9.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tMis en ligne le 28 avril 2008 \u00e0 09H56<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Depuis quelques semaines s’aggrave consid\u00e9rablement aux USA la question du racisme li\u00e9e \u00e0 la candidature de Barack Obama (l’hostilit\u00e9 d’une partie de l’\u00e9lectorat blanc contre Obama parce qu’il est Africain-Am\u00e9ricain, ou moiti\u00e9 Africain-Am\u00e9ricain, mais cette particularit\u00e9 n’a pas l’air d’avoir le moindre effet). Le Sunday Times d’hier rapporte une interview d’un des leaders noirs au… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3228,2834,6208,3424],"class_list":["post-69859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-crise","tag-noirs","tag-obama","tag-racisme"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}