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Governor Paterson was back at the scene of the crime today, attempting to wipe the slate clean and put the lid on what has been a disastrous campaign on his part of critiquing the "orchestrated" treatment of him from the media and how it illustrates that we are not in a postracial society. Paterson returned to the Errol Louis's radio show where he first made the remarks last week. Today he said, "I was wrong to get into an assessment of how the media views me. I do not think that race has anything to do with my poll numbers anything to do with my political issues in this day, and shouldn’t have said it. Straight out."
Despite today's mea culpa, the governor's stance still seems to remain all over the map. Just yesterday while out on Long Island, he said, "My remarks never say that there's a race element at all. But I didn't blame my problems on that, and I'm not changing the remarks I made." And even today after saying he was wrong, the News's Elizabeth Benjamin describes the rest of the radio interview as being "in true Paterson style, the longer he spoke, the murkier the situation became."
Paterson continued to go on the offensive about Dominic Carter of NY1 calling out his recent late-night stay at a Manhattan nightclub where Carter mistakenly believed the governor's daughter to be under 18 (she's 21). Paterson said today, "It leads to the notion of a stereotype of African Americanism: 'They're hanging out, they're in the club, they're drinking and they have no regard for their children." Both Paterson and Carter have demanded apologies from one another. Carter told the Observer, "What he's really saying is that I shouldn't cover the governor straight up. I should give him an advantage because I'm African-American and he's African-American."
And City Councilman Carles Barron threw in his two cents, joining the list of politicians to chastise Governor Paterson this week—but the first to do so for his apology. Barron said, “He shouldn’t have done the political moonwalk on this. That’s not a courageous thing to do."
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Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see.
and it is easy to criticize while sitting in front of a computer screen. While there is plenty to critique, this gov. has managed to create some positive change in a short period of time
loser !!!!
This whole "post racial era" phrase really needs to die. There's no such thing as a post racial era because there's no such thing as the racial era! The reality is that scientifically, race doesn't exist. It's a cultural construct - something we use to distinguish amongst each other. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that as long as people have way different skin colors, other people are going to use that to draw the distinction between "themselves" and "the other." Even if it WASN'T skin color, people would find something else to use to discriminate against each other.
I believe it's called cultural differences. Do you think white trash thinks of themselves as white trash?
Blaming "the press" is fun,now both Patterson & Palin
are on the same blame-game playing field.
Speaking of legal discrimination ,Our NYPD dispatchers
do use racial skin color to report 911 calls of criminal
behavior, is that racial bias?
For the love of God, please save everyone a lot of trouble and just say, "You won't have David Paterson to kick around anymore."
Only if he does it in his best impression of Nixon.
Jeez, how did we ever vote a governor into office with such an inferiority complex? Oh wait, we didn't. People that live their lives with this kind of mentality are only holding themselves back. Makes me not wanna vote for him when I actually do get the chance to. Props to Obama for not using this race card bull crap. How do we ever see beyond the color of anyone's skin, when people keep reminding us what color their skin is?