Here is an interesting historic account, occasioned by the current conflict in the Democratic party between advocates of the first black president vs. advocates of the first woman president: When Disadvantages Collide. It seems that the early suffragettes opposed giving black men the right to vote before white women had that right. I won’t even repeat what feminist icon Elizabeth Cady Stanton said on the subject.
Feminists vs. Blacks
June 2nd, 2008 | America, Law, Politics
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A parallel conundrum showed up in a recent case in England, where a Muslim man complained that the woman he hired to teach driving to his wife had turned out to be a transgendered man. Decisions, decisions–which privileged group gets legal priority?
Reading and hearing what these angry women said, it seems they’d aligned themselves with the liberal movement for the sake of themselves, and not for any cause outside themselves; not for a greater ideology, and not for all victims everywhere.
Which is probably true for each victimized segment.
It is ironic that women are being told, by their supposed best friends, to be patient and wait their turn.
Ain’t gonna happen.
You know, when I was a kid one of my favorite books, read to me by my very liberal and forward-thinking librarian mother, was “Little Black Sambo”. Wonderful story. The word has accumulated negative connotations, of course–to the extent that the very conservative Dr. Veith won’t even quote the feminist saying it–but I wonder whether it was considered so bad back in the day. I mean, waaay back in the day. While Stanton appears to us to be using it pejoratively, I wonder if she wasn’t using it elsewise, perhaps just familiarly or even fondly.
Anyway, there. I used the term. So sue me.
This over-hyped focus on race or gender is just annoying. I really could not care less about either characteristic in the context of the presidency - being black and/or a women really has nothing to do with being qualified or unqualified for the job. If the best person for the job was a natural born citizen of who was ethnically a Martian, then s/he should get the job.
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