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KING’s Person of the Year: Hillary Clinton
KING salutes the year’s most influential figure.
People probably made too much of the 50 Cent endorsement. After all, to anyone paying attention, it should have come as no surprise: He was just one in a chorus of millions, cultlike in their zeal and deep-pocketed in their support. They brandished posters and artsy T-shirts, they held rallies and graffitied mailboxes. They were everywhere, moved by a junior senator who was exciting voting blocks that hadn’t cared about the primaries in, well, ever.
It was also historic—groundbreaking, even; never before had someone who looked like this senator come so close to securing their party’s nomination, and with such a liberal platform. Naturally, celebrities rushed to show their support. Magic Johnson, for instance, had already beat Curtis to the punch. Timbaland, meanwhile, one-upped both of them, hosting a fundraiser in his own home, lining that campaign’s coffers with almost a million bucks’ worth of donations.
So yes, people probably made too much of the 50 Cent thing. Here was a charismatic, well-spoken senator with brilliant takes on the economy and health care, and a pledge to fight for low-income families, women, African Americans and Latinos in a way perhaps no other candidate had. So why wouldn’t 50 Cent show his support?
The big deal, of course, was that the junior senator he was backing was from New York, not Illinois; was white, not black; was a woman, not a man. Indeed, in the early part of the contest between senators Clinton and Obama, voters were all too quick to turn it into a gender-versus-race thing, as if that kind of thinking would get us anywhere. This did little but obscure the reality that deciding between the two of them was actually a really good problem to have. Both would shatter the status quo, wrest a position away from the old-white-dude establishment and move us forward as a country.
Now that Barack and Michelle are packing their boxes for Pennsylvania Avenue, we think it’s high time we salute the woman who pounded the 18 million cracks into that glass ceiling. No, this isn’t an after-the-fact endorsement any more than it is a slight on Obama (who we—and now 50 Cent—have been rooting for all along). But KING believes in giving credit where credit is due. So here’s why Hillary Clinton is our Person of the Year.
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12.22.08 at 1:02 pm
Fundraising » » KING’s Person of the Year: Hillary Clinton - KING-mag.com says:
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12.22.08 at 1:05 pm
ALAN says:
PLEASE, President elect is person of the year
get real people
12.22.08 at 4:47 pm
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12.22.08 at 4:56 pm
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12.22.08 at 11:43 pm
The Buzz » Blog Archive » » King’S Person of the Year: Hillary Clinton - King-Mag.Com says:
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12.23.08 at 12:16 am
ShaHid says:
Indeed, many a Negro jump on what ever band wagon they think will get them points within America’s social elite. Even through all thier business acumen, they obviously fail in understanding the Black Mans’ plight in the democratic processes here in America. The thing that worked in “Hillary’s” favor reflect the typical mentality of docile, and unaware black folk. The polital backing of these people for a white anglo saxon woman over Black man (who happen to be half African and half Euro American) is purely due to familiarity over the unfamiliar. President Elect Obama is indeed a relatively unknown pol to the people in these parts, while the former “First Lady” is well known. Question is, did they really believe America would fully back the idea of a woman President? The “Founding Fathers” would never approve! Furthermore, we will see how much less prejudice America has become on the 20th of January (G-D willing). Let’s see if the “Imperial Wizards” dont come out to protest it.
12.23.08 at 12:59 pm
Melinda says:
Barack Obama is the biggest fraud this country has ever seen. We will pay for this mistake. Thanks to the media, kookaid drinkers and those who shows the same enthusiasm for brittney spears
12.23.08 at 4:57 pm
Still4Hill says:
Excellent post, Siobhan, and a brave and terrific choice by King. You are right, she was in it for us, and she will always be there for us. She was in it to correct the course. She is a master navigator unlike the guy who stole the nomination from her via caucus fraud. If we ever sail out of thyis morass, it will be largely because of her policies that he adopted and the changes she is making at State even as we read this. She should be running the whole country, not just a department.
12.24.08 at 11:44 am
Lookahere says:
BARACK OBAMA is the person of the year. Quit turning this magazine into your bastion of white supremacy. P. S. Michelle Obama gets a honorable mention.
12.24.08 at 2:12 pm
U CAN'T BE SERIOUS says:
R U GUYS SERIOUS!
12.24.08 at 2:12 pm
bless says:
Only thing i agreed with hilary clinton on was universal health care. She is a strong woman i’m sure she will get her chance in the white house if she really wants to pursue it. Barack Obama won not off propaganda but because he let himself go he was himself. Hilary Clinton never took Barack seriously until it was too late. Had her campaign not been so dimwitted they could have stop him before he got momentum but they kept saying to themselves oh this half African and half Euro American>ShaHid
12.24.08 at 2:13 pm
U CAN'T BE SERIOUS says:
R GUYS SERIOUS?
01.21.09 at 8:05 pm
iceman says:
I wouldn’t have Hillary or Obama as person of the year. He silly for making her Secretary of State after all the trash talking her and Bill were doing. Everybody’s all hypnotized by Obama with his good rhetoric and his speeches. What makes him different from all the bloodsuckers in D.C.? His color? That’s why the real people running things made him the next puppet (president). To give the poor underpriviliged and the oppressed a hero or a new black hope. And yes i am black. My vote goes to my lord and savior Jesus Christ. Y’all get ya hopes up if y’all want to. 8 years from now y’all gonna look crazy