Hillary faced sexism but Obama faced racism; thus racism and sexism cancelled each other out and we got a fair contest.
Shuster and Abrams played the racism card to the extent that it cancelled out their overt sexism?
The constant attacks on Rev Wright showed media racism. The whole long debate early on about whether Obama was black enough showed racism. The talk about whether Obama was ready to be president (when he spent more time in elected office than Hillary, when he was president of the Harvard Law Review) showed racism. The white male journalists are always going to be tougher on a black man than a white woman, because these men are married to white women, their mothers, daughters and sisters are white women. They love white women.
this is undeniably right: "Hillary faced sexism but Obama faced racism;"
this is undeniably wrong: "thus racism and sexism cancelled each other out and we got a fair contest."
actually, we got a hideous mess of racism and sexism that totally detracted from the real and serious issues facing the country. racism and sexism fed off of each other, leading Dems who knew better to behave shamefully. SOME Clinton supporters did and said vile racist things. SOME Obama supporters excused the most obvious and vile sexism. it should ahve been our greatest moment, instead it was one of the worst displays of bigotry from DEMOCRATS this country has seen since the parties realigned on race in the 60's and 70's.
thanks to the diarest for this diary. i don't totally agree with them, i think we need to address racism and sexism head on, but i appreciate their attempts to unify.
