Who loves black people the most?

Is Hill-lolzz playing the race card? The Washington Post’s Marjorie Valbrun made a pretty good case last month that it's starting to look that way. There’s the innuendo and backdoor references to Obama drug use. Then the careless reference to MLK that drew on the idea that if you want to get something done, you gotta ask a white person, a version of Franklin’s co-sign. Her pandering references to her marriage to Bill as “interracial.” Bill Clinton’s New Hampshire red-in-the-face diatribe about the media love affair with Obama, recalling his leveraging anti-Sista Souljah sentiment in the wake of L.A. race riots to distance himself from Jesse Jackson and “establish his white bona fides” during the 1992 presidential campaign…

Yes or no, whether the Hill is or isn’t, Valbrun’s short piece underlines how calculating and unappealing and destructive Clinton politics can be and have been and will continue to be, that history being a core part of Hillary’s vaunted “experience” and what Obama is partly campaigning against.

Valbrun’s conclusion:

“My generation of black voters is politically savvy and well educated. We couldn’t care less about outdated notions of party loyalty. We are not our grandmothers, and no amount of candidate appearances at black churches is going to shape how we vote. We will certainly not sit back and allow Democratic candidates, or Republicans for that matter, to engage in Willie Horton-style tactics, even if the tactics are Willie Horton lite.

If Hillary Clinton competes against Obama fairly and without resorting to covert race baiting, large numbers of black voters will surely embrace her should she be the party’s nominee. If she relies instead on racial fears and stereotypes, we should not give her our votes.”