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News and Articles on Sister Souljah
Beer diplomacy Jul 30, 2009
In 1992, the then Governor of Arkansas, Bill Clinton, famously attacked the black singer Sister Souljah; and, more infamously, made sure he returned home to Little Rock mid-campaign to oversee the lethal injection of Ricky Ray Rector, a brain damaged black man who had killed a police officer. Fears and grievances. (BBC News)
Tough Love From the Father-in-Chief Jun 20, 2009
Many campaign watchers, of all races, applauded Obama's speech as a "Sister Souljah moment" that showed the true value of a black presidential candidate: saying things that white politicians could notor, as Jesse Jackson famously put it soon after, "talking down to black people." But these analyses missed the point: Black leaders, including Jackson, have been urging responsible fatherhood and stand-up-straight living for as long as there have been black pulpits to preach from. At the 2006... (Slate)
GOP, Find the Next Bill Clinton May 14, 2009
And, with his party's presidential nomination virtually in hand in June 1992, he used the occasion of a bridge-building speech to Jackson's Rainbow Coalition to criticize a black rapper named Sister Souljah, who had called on African Americans to stop killing each other and to kill whites instead. Yet Clinton skillfully offset what some might see as these distancing actions by astutely courting black voters in other ways. (Newsmax)
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