With the nomination of Cynthia McKinney as the Green Party candidate for President in 2008, and Rosa Clemente as her vice presidential running mate, we have a serious voice of the workingclass to challenge the McCain-Obama capitalist class con game. The Green Party, unfortunately, is not a socialist party, but this ticket will certainly bring the Green Party into the workingclass communities to challenge the Democratic Party election-frauding machine that always works against the interests of the workingclass. This nomination is certainly a milestone.

The announcement at http://www.greensforgreens.org/
states:
“Getting 313 of 532 votes cast, McKinney, a former Member of Congress from Georgia, was picked by Greens from states across the country to be their standard bearer this year. Hip-hop activist and journalist Rosa Clemente was selected to be the vice-presidential candidate of the Greens.”

“McKinney served six terms representing DeKalb County’s 4th Congressional District before moving to California and becoming a Green. About 800 Greens are attending the convention at the Chicago Symphony Center.”

“Clemente said she accepted McKinney’s invitation to be her running mate because she believes the former Georgia Congresswoman’s platform addresses issues not addressed by Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama.”

This ticket is believed to be the first all women of color president-vice-presidential ticket. While it may be a surprise to some that Obama, an African-American, is the presumptive Democratic Party presidential candidate, and the Green Party now has this all women of color ticket, anyone watching the changing demographics in this country would not be surprised at all. In case you did not notice, most European immigration ended in the 1940s and the Latino immigration has been rapidly replacing the white non-Hispanics, especially since NAFTA of 1994, so that in many states, including California, and most urban areas, white non-Hispanics are a minority of the population, and growing smaller rapidly as the white non-Hispanic population is mostly over age 40.

Among regular voters, however, the story is the opposite: White, non-Hispanics are clearly the majority nationwide. That reflects the fact that most of the 100 million non-voters, most of whom are not white-non-Hispanics, are not registered voters, and most are workingclass. The task of the Greens and the socialists is to register the non-registered workingclass in all 50 states. It is going to take a lot of footwork because there is no money for TV time.
Her campaign website is:
http://www.runcynthiarun.org/