Well, at least better than having your own VP candidate criticizing your attack ad:

http://embeds.blogs.foxnews.com/2008...k-ad-terrible/

Interesting Fact of the Day
 

Since we are talking about race relations...

Senator Obama left the "race" field blank when he applied to the Harvard Law School. No one can scream that he benefited from affirmative action! Did anyone else know this? I heard it on the Rachel Maddow Show (MSNBC).

Hillary just threw up and doesn't know why. :)

(DS sez...and here is yet another opinion...)

White Privilege and the Election

I was really happy to see this article on white privilege and politics over at Alternet today. It seems that in the hub bub that is Palin and all her faux feminism, the media has all but forgotten the racial dynamics at play in this presidential election. An excerpt from the piece:


White privilege is when you can get pregnant at 17 like Bristol Palin and everyone is quick to insist that your life and that of your family is a personal matter, and that no one has a right to judge you or your parents, because "every family has challenges," even as black and Latino families with similar "challenges" are regularly typified as irresponsible, pathological and arbiters of social decay.

I experienced this one first hand. Marvelyn and I submitted an op-ed about the ways in which her situation (unprotected sex leading to HIV infection) was similar to Bristol's (unprotected sex leading to unplanned pregnancy), the difference being that you can't slap a wedding ring on your finger and expect the nation to de-shame you if you're a young black woman with HIV. The op-ed editor, of a major, well respected newspaper, wrote back, "I'm sorry, but I fail to see the similarities here."

Yeah, because you fail to see white privilege. Unpack the knapsack people.


http://www.feministing.com/archives/011104.html

K...

I hadn't heard that at all. Was it verified as fact in some way?

Diverse?! Ha! Have you seen the Republican Convention? Old, white guys with money! No exactly representative of the diverse makeup of this country.

I googled and found a mention...
http://althouse.blogspot.com/2008/08...lly-think.html

ETA: I guess it hasn't been confirmed true or false.

I never get tired of reading White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack. Interesting that nearly 20 years after the piece was written, people are still denying that white privilege exists or are trying to divert attention by pointing to class privilege as if class privilege were not wholly dependent on the structure of white privilege.

Just republicans in general. It's a little too early in the morning for me to elaborate, but I'll try to remember to come back to this thread later. :)

I was thinking "Hillary just got violently angry and punched Bill in the face, but doesn't know why."

She's vehemently against McCain as President. And I think she'd rather pluck her leg hair out one by one than have Palin as Veep.

interesting article...doesn't seem like now that the dust is settling, Palin isn't having the big OOMPH that McCain was lookign for among white women that he was hoping for....

http://www.gallup.com/poll/110638/Di...ite-Women.aspx

Uhhhhh...John...when you pick a youngish chick that threatens to take away a choice that some even older than her has fought for, well.... that may not go over too well.