In an email to friends and supporters, E. Faye Williams offers this statement
regarding Hillary Clinton's JFK assassination comment while talking about Barack Obama and the presidential campaign.
“
Let me say up front that I am an Obama supporter in this Presidential Primary, but I have been
very careful not to criticize Clinton because I knew that we'd have to work with whichever candidate won this Primary--but
after her "assassination" comment today, I have had it with her! I don't buy her apology this
time.
First, she apologized to the Kennedy family, but I have heard no apology to the Obama family or to Black people
who were initially so concerned about the possibility of assassination that some were initially reluctant to support
Senator Obama. I have heard no apology to the Obama children who had to hear the possibility of their father being assassinated!
The
comment was totally insensitive no matter what she meant. The context in which she said it can be read no way other than "he
could be assassinated and I would be there to step in and take over". I have forgiven all of her blunders, attacks and
so-called misunderstood statements, but this latest one is unforgivable. I hope you agree and that you will deal with
it appropriately. I don't know about other women, but all of the Black women I've spoken with today are livid!
No,
we can't just keep on taking her at her word, as she gets progressively worse. ”
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E. Faye Williams, Esq. is the Chair for the National Congress of Black Women,
Inc. in Washington, D.C. Visit www.npcbw.org.
