The head of the NAACP, Julian Bond, makes a valid point.
Julian Bond, a veteran civil rights leader, said Obama's candidacy doesn't ''herald a post-civil rights America, any more than his victory in November will mean that race as an issue has been vanquished in America.''
He follows that up with this bit.
But he drew loud applause when he said the country, and ''all of us here,'' are taking pride in the success in this year's campaign by a candidate who couldn't have stayed in some cities' hotels a few decades ago.
Yeah, when people would have looked at Obama and seen A Black Man. Like Mr. Bond can't look at Obama and see anything but ... A Black Man. How can Bond expect anyone else to see Obama as just a person if he doesn't?
I heard one too many people (in this case, read: women) who were seeing the successful election of Clinton as finally breaking the Ultimate Glass Ceiling. That's just as much b.s. as thinking that electing someone who's Not White will end racism.
ReplyDeleteI was offended by this labeling of the office of president as somehow the ultimate in anything other than politics. There's no question that women can hold the Big Office. Thatcher & Merkel. So the US hasn't gotten off it's butt enough to lead the world in social equality? It's not like we can blame anyone other than ourselves. It's not like we could look at England or Germany and somehow believe that their women had it easier trying to enter a male workforce.
I was so sick & tired of hearing everyone rant about how Clinton was getting screwed because she's a woman, and the country would rather have a man rather than a woman, and therefore a black man is preferable to her. I suppose that argument is more comfortable to some than eliminating the gender. More people would rather have a black than a white in office? Would the pro-Clintons rather be descriminated because she's a woman, or because she's white?
The feminists were so gung ho for her, but the entire time she's running for office, the only reference to her from the media was Mrs. Clinton. What sort of self-respecting feminist wants to be Mrs.? It was always Obama/Hilary. I never once heard Barak/Hilary or Obama/Clinton.
Blacks and Women both get preferential treatment from the gov't. At some point, the gov't needs to step back, and say 'sink or swim'. Maybe the election this year would be opportune. (won't happen, but it would be opportune)
Equality... you keep using that word I do not think it means what you think it means....
ReplyDeleteA lot of people make a big stink about it... but don't REALLY want it, they want the perceived value not the real thing.
Funny now working in the govt I am amazed at the number of angry women of ethnicity I have run across..