Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama Show Sexism Still Trumps Racism
By Bonnie Erbe, Thomas Jefferson Street blog.
On Friday usnews.com posted a fascinating op-ed piece about women in international security. All I can say is, hear, hear and read, read!!
Recent headlines lead one to believe that we should award U.S. policies an "A" for inclusiveness, yet empirical evidence suggests we still have a way to go: Multiple studies on women in national security have illuminated concern about the progression of women into senior leadership positions. Many of the studies question whether women face either real or perceived barriers to reaching the highest ranks.
And the answer to the studies' question (whether women still face barriers to the top) is yes, yes, yes! As I've said before, last month's presidential election is proof positive it is more acceptable to be sexist than racist. The sexist insults hurled at Sen. Hillary Clinton (being called a she-goat, her laugh being called a cackle, etc.) if translated into racial slurs and used instead against President-elect Obama would never have been tolerated. And yet, to this day, no one has been forced to apologize to Clinton for all the highly-biased poppycock she had to endure.
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Black women are twice marginalized...till Women's Rights become Human Rights
Megs
Women always get told 'BACK TO THE END OF THE BUS, LADIES". Remember and don't conveniently forget that it took women until 1920 - FIFTY YEARS AFTER THE BLACKS GOT THE RIGHT TO VOTE - to become eligible to cast their ballots! Yes, black women have it even tougher. But it's the white and black women who have suffered abuse as result of losing their human rights and have been victimized more than men of any color. There are more women dying of domestic abuse ("friendly fire") than soldiers who've died as result of the War. Thousands of women are maimed, crippled, injured gravely, traumatized and ending up in institutions or the graveyard as result of INCEST, DOMESTIC ABUSE and FEMICIDEs--and black men as well as whites are to blame for this carnage we tolerate so well. It's okay for you to bitch about the relative inequality of black men vs white women's perceived "got it better" role, but stop and think that black and white women together are victimized by their men. And black men are as guilty as whites of beating the crap out of thier girlfriends and wives and incesting their kids. Have you seen COLOR PURPLE with Whoopee yet? Get the vid and rent it to see the unbearable inhumanities suffered by BLACK WOMEN. Black women have it doubly bad, as women and as members of minority! But it's only by sticking together with their white sisters they can effectively put a stop to the MISOGYNY that's affecting you and me and all girls and women whose human rights have been robbed from the cradle.
Remember always, instead of putting class and race politics ahead of the political horse, that the driver beind the socio-political power engine is MALE and not female.
When you realize that WOMEN'S RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS, then perhaps you'll think differently. To hurt another woman cause she's white and thus "more privileged" is shortsighted and wrong.
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Hi. Good news.
Just the facts, please.
FAIL. There have been 2 black males and 1 black woman elected senators in this country's history, since Reconstruction. There are currently 16 white woman senators. There have been 3 black governors since Reconstruction. 29 white women have been governors. There are currently 2 black governors (both males), and 8 white female governors.
The notion that the status of white women 'TRUMPS' racism is not only offensive, it is a lie. Had Barack Obama lost the election, would he be demanding that Hillary pay his campaign debt? Of course not. If Obama had run his campaign as poorly as Clinton, would Erbe claim that racism trumped sexism? Sadly, no. When Hillary went racist during her campaign, was that sexism trumping racism? Yep.
Further, when white women exclude black women, brown women, yellow and red women from the conversation as Erbe has done here, they do ALL women a disservice. But Erbe believes that 'woman' IS white. How unseemly of her!
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