Open Thread: Geraldine Ferraro

And seriously, how do you explain 91% of African-Americans voting for Obama if not by the fact of his race? No other demographic breaks as skewed-ly as this for ANY candidate!

Hahahahahahahaahahah! Again, we black folk just line up, don’t we? That’s why Jesse Jackson was the first black president, and Al Sharpton was in a dead heat in 2004 with Alan Keyes.

I wonder why it doesn’t occur to Chevalier that perhaps – just perhaps – black Americans started breaking for Obama when it became obvious they were trying to snow him in that backhanded, “I’m not a racist because I didn’t use the n-word” way. As I said when this race first started, we had two great candidates. (Three technically – John Edwards was pretty good too.) I checked out the policy issues and made a decision based on that. [And please, I don't want to hear jack shit about policy in this conversation. Everyone knows where the candidates stand, time for that has passed. I'm writing about this to prove a point.]

Personally, my decision came down to splitting hairs on policy issues. They have similar goals and similar ideas about how to correct major problems here in the US. So, I looked at the policy and noticed one key difference (best outlined in the poverty post from a while back): Obama’s policies looked like they would be able to make immediate changes in someone’s day to day life. (And by immediate, I mean about a year out – as a bureaucrat, I see how government money flows up close and personal.) Clinton was going to make broad changes that would take a few years really feel the effects. And the decision was made.

But for me, over the course of this campaign, I went from being pro both, with a lean toward Obama to being pro-Obama with deeply conflicted feelings about Clinton. Like Angry Black Bitch talked about in her last two posts:

I don’t know you, Geraldine, and I don’t assume a person is decent simply because they hold a certain status in the Democratic Party and feminist history. This bitch has never met you, but I sure as shit know what it is like to have someone attribute my success to my being black.

The personal is political.

And all this shit hits at me, personally.

So, while I can understand being tired of “these muthaf—–g surrogates on this muthaf—–g campaign,” I have to say I am more tired at the treatment of these surrogates after they say something out of pocket. And since Obama has been quick to fire, denounce and reject, or distance himself from these kinds of remarks when they are made, I find it fascinating that Hillary has not.

So this black American is starting to weigh the benefits of voting for Hillary versus my personal beliefs. I mean, if I wanted to ignore racial digs and bias for personal gain, I would be a Republican.

Again, what do you all think? I’m especially interested in hearing from black HRC supporters on this one, but everyone should feel welcome to weigh in.

[And as always, comments policy is still in effect.]

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