Which first is first: black man v. white woman?
Posted on March 5, 2008
Filed Under News, Opinion |
Maureen Dowd’s opinion piece, “Duel of Historical Guilts,” in today’s NY Times alludes to the divide of the Democratic party after a win by Clinton yesterday in our great state of Texas.
“With Obama saying the hour is upon us to elect a black man and Hillary saying the hour is upon us to elect a woman, the Democratic primary has become the ultimate nightmare of liberal identity politics. All the victimizations go tripping over each other and colliding, a competition of historical guilts.
People will have to choose which of America’s sins are greater, and which stain will have to be removed first. Is misogyny worse than racism, or is racism worse than misogyny?
As it turns out, making history is actually a way of being imprisoned by history. It’s all about the past. Will America’s racial past be expunged or America’s sexist past be expunged?”
Dowd mentions that Black voters hold contempt for those not voting Obama, while women voters hold contempt for those not voting Clinton. Clinton’s campaign has been notorious for using her femininity to attract the female vote:
Hell no I won’t vote for someone because she’s a woman. If I were Black, I wouldn’t vote for someone because she/he is black. Either way, whomever wins out of either marginalized group will cast a mold for the rest of that marginalized group’s members who also desire a shot at the presidency someday.
That means, if Clinton messes up, female presidents might become few and far between.
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