I don't think M'lette has anything to apologize for. I'm really tired of hearing people say, you can't say anything about him being black. Why not?? He's black! Tom is right about him playing the white guilt card. He has played it really well too.
Let me ask this. If they had Clinton in that photo wearing a beat up old straw hat, overalls with no shirt, holding a jug with XXX on it, and the biggest "Deliverance" smile he could muster, would you get offended?
It wasn't like it was a picture of him in a cotton field. That I would say is wrong, because that is going back to a time when people were treated unequally and inhumanly.
I can be called whitey or cracker by some wannabe thug gangster, but if I respond with anything having to do with the color of skin, I am the racist. So damn sick of it.
Another thing that just chaps my hide is people who say the are such-and-such American. I'm Mexican-American. I'm African-American. I'm French-American or whatever else. If you are a legal citizen of this country, you are AMERICAN. Nothing else. I come from a German heritage. I don't walk around telling people I am German-American just because my ancestors from centuries ago were German. It is all a bunch of BS.
Alright, ranting over with.