Posted on 06/21/2008 9:09:26 AM PDT by tlb
Michelle Obama has become an issue in the presidential campaign even though she isn't running for anything.
And this black woman is wondering: Where are Obama's feminist defenders?
But just as you didn't have to be for Clinton to decry the sexism in the coverage of her campaign, you don't have to be an Obama supporter to defend Michelle Obama against similar treatment.
So I want to know: What does Gloria Steinem think? She was out front with her support of Clinton, promoting the importance of a female president.
How about Geraldine Ferraro, the former vice presidential nominee whose racially tinged denunciations of Barack Obama sparked a media firestorm?
The campaign against Michelle Obama -- who went on "The View" this week to prove her everywoman bona fides -- has not caused a rift between black and white women so much as it has exposed it.
I've long been frustrated, as a black woman and a feminist, with our national conversation. I didn't hear the cause speaking up for women of color or for women who have always worked in blue-collar or service jobs. Choice was not their issue.
The woman who employed my educated mother to clean her house never quite saw her as a sister in the struggle for equality.
Just as the Rutgers women's basketball team was miscast by Don Imus, Obama is being labeled something she clearly is not. Her achievements are being dismissed.
But in America, there's seldom a cost for disrespecting black women.
I'm waiting for feminists who speak of second-class citizenship and being pushed to the back of the bus to remember the civil rights movement that gave birth to those words.
Okay, I get it: Your candidate lost. You're angry.
But frankly, I'm getting a little peeved myself.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
My wife gets infuriated every time the media gushes over how “beautiful” “elegant” “stylish” Michelle is (HUH???) and comparing her with Jackie O. (WHAT?!?!) What is with this willful blindness when it comes to Michelle Obama. She is NOT attractive in the least.
ROTFL!
These are the same feminists who didn’t seem to care that Bill Clinton was accused of rape. Why would anyone expect them to behave rationally?
Please. The View only exposed their campaign’s new angle - to show her gentler side. How does a premeditated tv show that revolves around celebrities expose anything about America’s “troubles” anyway?
There are plenty of women around the world who need defending before her... and they are actually attacked for pete’s sake.
Yes, and then some. It’s all about excuses and avoiding the harsh reality of talent. Women, blacks and gays incapable of good art claim they are disliked because of their “preferences” and what not, when it is about their sheer inabilities or lack of will.
Personaly, I’m not a homophobe, and it has nothing to do with it, I just do not like it feminist/ugly, period. For them it is easier to vote for “out-of-focus” “revolutionary” candidates and terror groups because that is the only thing they can accomplish. Their candidates promote such ugly arts because they themselves cannot speak eloquently or intelligently otherwise, beyond teleprompting and plagiarisms they do not even understand.
Thank-you Professor Wallace you have made me a much better student.
If Ivy League schools are admitting students who are this illiterate, color me unimpressed.
I agree. Women have not come so far to be the new aggressors or to destroy the country. Something sinister has taken over "the woman's movement" and it ain't pretty.
She's the biggest RACIST of all!
I don’t find Oprah to be a racist. She rejected Rev Wright’s church long ago.
Sweety, the feminist movement gasped its last breath when it was complicit to the most powerful man in the world using a young, plump intern intermittently as a vacuum and an ash tray.
Thank you...
“Thats why your black men don’t stay with you, nothing but whining comes out of your mouth.”
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Well, I don’t know abot the husbands but I have worked with a number of black women and it is true that I have heard a LOT of whining over nothing even when they are granted preferences that a white man can only dream about. There are exceptions, they don’t all whine all the time but there is a lot more whining than hard work and positive attitude.
Does anyone else think “Sherrie Palmer” when they see this woman ?
“I don’t find Oprah to be a racist. She rejected Rev Wright’s church long ago.”
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But she couldn’t wait to get behind a fake black leftist named Obama who had attended the same church for twenty years. If she saw the problem with the church why can’t she see the problem with Obama?
And those would be what, exactly?
What an unbeatable combination - playing the race and gender cards in the same article. As a white male, anything I say will be either racist or sexist, right?
The aura of entitlement and inevitability is thick enough to cut with a knife here. Barack and Michelle have figuratively already moved into the WH. The seal is in place on his podium.
Can I still vote for who I like, or is that not allowed now?
That's odd. Because she is campaigning.
And this black woman is wondering: Where are Obama's feminist defenders?
Geez, I hate to have to state the obvious, but what's this article--chopped liver?
But just as you didn't have to be for Clinton to decry the sexism in the coverage of her campaign, you don't have to be an Obama supporter to defend Michelle Obama against similar treatment.
But you do have to be a Republican to enjoy the degree to which the various victims and grievance committees can get their panties in a bunch over the most venial (or imagined) slights.
So I want to know: What does Gloria Steinem think?
Gloria Steinem think? She doesn't think anything. She's a brainless emoter, just like you.
She was out front with her support of Clinton, promoting the importance of a female president.
[Thought Crime, if that female isn't black, like Michelle and me.]
How about Geraldine Ferraro, the former vice presidential nominee whose racially tinged denunciations of Barack Obama sparked a media firestorm?
She had to resign and apologize for speaking the truth about a charismatic tyro who can't pour water out of a boot without a teleprompter, so she's supposed to do what now -- defend his non-campaigning also talentless wife?
The campaign against Michelle Obama
You know the campaign: the one where right wing radio talk show hosts deny a rumor about Michelle Obama and then wind up being accused of starting one.
-- who went on "The View" this week to prove her everywoman bona fides
While not running for anything...
-- has not caused a rift between black and white women so much as it has exposed it.
Skinny-ass Barbie Doll Ho's has been stealin' our men. My baby daddy Barack Obama gonna put a stop to that, O Yeah!
I've long been frustrated, as a black woman and a feminist,
Notice which identity comes first, though...
with our national conversation. I didn't hear the cause speaking up for women of color or for women who have always worked in blue-collar or service jobs.
"Drag a $100 bill through a trailer park, and see what comes out," sound familiar?
Choice was not their issue.
"Choice" wasn't Skinny-ass Barbie-Doll Ho's issue either -- unless the "choice" was to kill your babies.
The woman who employed my educated mother to clean her house never quite saw her as a sister in the struggle for equality.
Scum of the Earth! Betrayer of the Workers of the World! She had work that needed to be done, and she dared to pay my mother to do it. Storm the Bastille! Bring back the guillotine! Aristocrat!
Just as the Rutgers women's basketball team was miscast by Don Imus, Obama is being labeled something she clearly is not. Her achievements are being dismissed.
Like the achievement that she got into Princeton, even though, by her own admission, she was unqualified? Or was their some actual achievement you were talking about. See, nobody can really dismiss her achievements, because like Barack, she doesn't have any. Oh, wait... I get it... Her achievement is that she's black. And her other achievement is that she's a woman, and her female skin privilege is being dissed. Got it.
But in America, there's seldom a cost for disrespecting black women.
Keeping the bong more than an arms-length away from the word processor will do wonders for your short-term memory, Sweetie. Remember the Don Imus guy you just wrote about one sentence ago?
I'm waiting for feminists who speak of second-class citizenship and being pushed to the back of the bus to remember the civil rights movement that gave birth to those words.
Your memory problem is a lot more serious than I thought. I know actual history -- as opposed to a litany of imagined injustices -- isn't something liberals actually study, but the emancipation of women, you know, that whole "Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Suffragette Thing," started almost a century before Rosa Parks.
Oh -- and by the way -- the fact that Susan B. Anthony worked for years with Frederick Douglass didn't stop him from throwing her under the Horse Buggy when the 15th Amendment came up short for gals. Race has apparently always trumped sex, and your solution to that is for liberal white women to just "put a little ice on it."
You might actually want to read a book sometime. I mean, besides Collected Doggerel of Maya Angelou.
Okay, I get it: Your candidate lost. You're angry.
But frankly, I'm getting a little peeved myself.
So very much ado, about nothing at all. For the roughly Avogardo-th Number of times in my life, I'm ashamed of half of my Country.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
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