Hillary Clinton’s Dark And Stormy Night

WRITES Orlando Patteson in “The Red Phone in Black and White”, a response in the New York Times to Hillary Clinton’s 3am advert:

I have spent my life studying the pictures and symbols of racism and slavery, and when I saw the Clinton ad’s central image — innocent sleeping children and a mother in the middle of the night at risk of mortal danger — it brought to my mind scenes from the past. I couldn’t help but think of D. W. Griffith’s “Birth of a Nation,” the racist movie epic that helped revive the Ku Klux Klan, with its portrayal of black men lurking in the bushes around white society. The danger implicit in the phone ad — as I see it — is that the person answering the phone might be a black man, someone who could not be trusted to protect us from this threat.

Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively - Voltaire

Finally, Hillary Clinton appears, wearing a business suit at 3 a.m., answering the phone. The message: our loved ones are in grave danger and only Mrs. Clinton can save them. An Obama presidency would be dangerous — and not just because of his lack of experience. In my reading, the ad, in the insidious language of symbolism, says that Mr. Obama is himself the danger, the outsider within.

Hillary Clinton is wearing a business suit at 3am because it is what she relaxes in. She may wear it in the manner of the old shrink-to-fit Levi jeans adverts, entering a hot bath and turning the waters an icy cold with her touch.

When there is so much overt racism, why go looking for it in hiden places?

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Posted: 11th, March 2008 | In: Anorak In New York, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Politicians, Race For The White House Comments (2) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink