It ought to be over, but it isn’t. Obama won North Carolina and did very well in Indiana. It was 51 percent Clinton and 49 percent Obama when I wrote this blog last night. They were still awaiting the vote count in Lake City, Indiana. Because all the other counties in the state had reported their numbers, the mayor of this predominately black city was on CNN last night explaining the problem. He said they’d never in history had so many early and absentee votes to count and that was slowing down the process. Of course, we now know that Hillary won in Indiana, but she barely won. She needed a big win and didn’t get it. But it’s not over.
It’s over for Mario on Dancing with the Stars. He was voted off. It was all over for the Atlanta Hawks on Sunday, they were defeated. But this thing right here, is going to the wire. It doesn’t seem to matter who wins or loses, really.
It’s time to face the facts. It’s not up to the regular voters anymore. It’s up to the Super Delegates. But that doesn’t mean it’s out of our hands. It only means we need to begin putting the pressure on the Super Delegates. We need to take the mystery out of the process, find out who the Super Delegates are and who they’re supporting. If you live in an area where you believe the Super Delegate is not supporting a candidate that the majority of its constituents support, don’t get mad about it, get active. A lot of you will roll your eyes when I say this but Tavis taught us a lot about radio advocacy. Let’s take a page out of his book by doing more than grumbling about something we don’t like.
Tomorrow I’ll begin listing the names and contact information of Super Delegates. We’ll concentrate on elected officials who are non-committed and political/civil rights activists that publicly speak out on the behalf of black people.
I don’t think most of us can make ourselves any clearer about what we want and who we support, but it can’t hurt for these Super Delegates to have our wishes on record.
If this is going to drag out until the bitter end, however it turns out, we’ll feel better if we know we did everything we could to get our message out. Especially if going to the polls and casting our vote isn’t enough.
In the meantime, if Barack is the candidate in the November, the question is will Hillary’s supporters put the hate away and vote for him?
When we asked if Obama supporters would vote for Hillary many of you said you wouldn’t vote at all. Will Hillary’s supporters stay home?