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Is she crazy? All bets are off when that woman who is being Misogynistically savaged resorts to racist savaging.
Really I am done. The *last* group I want to be a part of is the above white feminist crowd. Yes, I have to throw in my lot with the womanists because this other stuff is just nonsense.
I really thought anti-Arab racism and anti-Muslim sentiments were getting better in the 90s. Then we had 9/11 and it has been downhill since. Everybody's worst nightmare come true, and those Arabs did it, so they're all terrorists and deserve to die horrible deaths. Nuke the whole continent of Asia, one of my white aunts said to my mother. Yep. Nuke 'em all.
I always considered myself an “equalist”, because I never really felt like a part of the feminist movement. Even when I found out about womanism, I was a bit leery of it because of the possibilities of "divide and conquer". However, this past primary has made it ABUNDANTLY clear that white feminism is not about speaking truth to power for woman-kind, only for white woman-kind. As a Black woman I refuse to align myself with this shameful movement.
Of course, I'm cynical enough to see the NH events as Clinton's successful exploitation of her gender (just like JJ Jr's gut response), so lump me in with the sexists there.
More disturbing, I think, is the fact that this "Clinton lost because of sexism" meme is reemerging right before the convention with articles like this, Howard Wolfson pushing it hard on his new blog, etc. Clinton herself is being helpful, but I guess there's no reason to ask or expect her to control her ex-employees, husband, and friends if she didn't have any control of them during the campaign.
Her campaign was like a dress from Forever 21: it looked hot the first time you wore it but after you threw it in the wash it fell apart.
But they are pumas not lions.
LOL
All of 2007 Hillary was the hot dress in the Forever 21 window. It was all good, you could get the same designer fashion (Bill) at a cut rate price (Hillary). But Obama threw that sucker in the wash in January and the seams unraveled, the hem was raggedy, strings everywhere, it kept shrinking and shrinking, colors fading. It's like PUMA is mad at Obama because they ended up with a raggedy dress.
When I stop laughing and when I get up off the floor, I may have something to say!!
No I won't!! To use your phrase - "THE END!!" :>) :>) :>)
I can't wait to see Michelle's speech tonight. She's gonna knock it outa the ballpark!
I hope at Invesco, they interview AA's and do specials on AA's who've traveled to see the historic acceptance speech. I hope AA's talk about what this means to them.
This post is BRILLIANT!!! :>) :>) :>)
"You don't worry about Michelle Obama. , etc"
So THAT was why I heard those LOUD SOUNDS of the CRICKETS****** - from the White Feminista!!! Oh! O.K. :>) :>)
Whew! BRILLIANT Deep Breaths [on YOUR behalf!! :>) :>) :>)
He quickly refined the comment though to indicate exactly who the wackos were.
This is NOTHING new!
Rikyrah: Supremely excellent post. I am glad you stopped quoting because that was more than enough. How dare tweedle dum and tweedle dumber speak as if they ever included the Black woman in "the" feminist circle. They ain't slick.
To all the IRRATIONAL and ILLOGICAL Hillpatines, Clintonites, PUMA's: KISS IT and STICK IT.
But it works well!! :>) :>)
I'll do Doo-Wop in the background!!! :>) :>)
But I also spoke up when I thought she was behaving piss poorly, and unfortunately for her, it was more often then not. Is this what "feminism" means? That I must ignore the character flaws of someone running for office just because she has a uterus? Sorry, my Mama raised me to use my brain.
Maybe Black women should have started a Hillary watch...or maybe not. But for people to get on their high horse and write an article that essentially says bad, bad Black women is complete bullshit. It essentially ignores the fact that even though many Black women may have felt sympathy for Hillary because she was being unfairly caricatured by the media at times (NOT the Obama campaign mind you) they had to reconcile that with the questionable race baiting tactics that were employed by her, her husband, her their surrogates.
O.K. Errybody on their mailing list got the same! :>) :>) :>)
How could black women stand up for Clinton? We were too busy tending to the knife she had stuck in our backs. The sexism she experienced came from the media, but all of her negative attacks were aimed at Obama and his blackness. She made it CLEAR that she was in this race to win "hard working, white Americans" and had nothing for the rest of us.
These Root people need to get a clue.
And "whycome" they use the ROOT title!????? Whose ROOTS???? :>) :>)
That's the way OTHERS decided it would be in this country. While white females were sitting on the porch being waited on hand and foot not just during slavery, but when Black women worked as domestics in their households for pennies, I am sure they had our best interest at heart.
Yeah, they truly care about the plight of Black women AFTER they have been served first, after all, with all the crying, whining and eyelash batting, what's a Black girl to do?
Stay in her place until Ms. Ann tells her she can move. How dare these Black women think they are equal to us! Who told them they could speak? Waaaaaahhh, Waaaaah, are they lookng at me yet?
Damn. Just Damn.
As for demanding that black women choose gender over race? That's a generational thing. White feminists over fifty were the idiots telling black women to stand down while Hillary was spewing racist bile. White feminists under fifty were fleeing the Hillary camp and rallying around Barack and Michelle in response.
On a related note, is anyone else incredibly annoyed that the old white guys on PBS are not giving Michelle Obama far more credit for her speech? I thought she was splendid. And the audience was, as Judy Woodruff put it, completely rapt.
Fantastic post! I'm with RosieReader - the whining must stop. Hillary wasnt robbed, she lost. There's no crying in baseball.
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