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“The model etched in Clinton’s head – and it is part and parcel of her entire worldview with respect to minorities – is: you vote for us, we’ll take care of you. And “we” is always white and straight and connected. Obama represents an end to those categor
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WTF? “If you have a look that’s deemed outside the norm by mainstream culture — whether you’re a dwarf, an amputee, someone overweight, someone Asian — chances are, someone has a fetish for you.”
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“Women now own at least a 50 percent stake in nearly 10.4 million U.S. firms—about 41 percent of all privately held companies. But less than 3 percent of those women-owned businesses have achieved revenues of $1 million or more.”
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“So concerned are you about what “rightwingers” are thinking you neglect to consider how this image [of Michelle Obama] effects WOC. Of course our feelings are inconsequential.”
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“The report, based on an examination of the law’s impact over a decade, said that minority children adopted into white households face special challenges and that white parents need preparation and training for what might lie ahead.”
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“One questioner asked the Illinois senator to name close friends who were Jewish and pro-Israel.
“I hesitate to start listing them out,” Obama said, cautioning against a stereotype that having acquaintances in a minority group meant you did not behave in
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“Over the past month, three high-ranking male Native officials who work in both Montana state and tribal governments have told Indian Country Today during background political conversations that they view Clinton in a derogatory manner.”
Carmen Van Kerckhove is co-founder and president of
Lux wrote:
To clarify the quote up there from my fetish vs. preference piece: I did not mean that I, personally, view Asians to be outside the norm, but that mainstream, white culture does (as it does almost anyone not white) — hence the presence of Asian fetish sites, etc.
Posted 28 May 2008 at 7:29 am ¶
Matt wrote:
Obama’s done a lot to reach out to American Jews, even a blog in Hebrew. Actually, it’s almost made me nervous, as if he really believed what antisemites say, that Jews control American politics.
But, I’d like to point out, almost all of the Jews I know, almost all of the Jewish blogs I read are pro-Obama. (From the US. Some Jewish Brits have supported Hillary or Edwards.) It probably has a lot to do with the fact that I read mostly liberal blogs or that many of the Jewis blogs I read are by fairly young bloggers. But it’s still true.
Not only will we not control the election, we will not swing the election, and –despite the media coverage– many of us will indeed even vote for Obama.
Posted 28 May 2008 at 10:12 am ¶
jvansteppes wrote:
1. I find the choice of an Andrew Sullivan link quite interesting; he first popped onto my radar as the guy who published Camille Paglia who is notorious for extremely problematic and racist romanticizations about Black and Latin allegedly ‘instinctive’ sexualities. He’s quite vicious to fellow queers [blaming us for AIDS etc] and he’s extremely hawkish regarding the war of terror. When I first read he was endorsing Obama I smelled white guilt, but let’s hope I’m wrong.
2.I love how possibly being Muslim automatically makes someone anti-Jewish and I wonder if this assumption even comes from Jewish communities or if it’s just projected, or both.
“Don’t judge me because I’ve got a funny name. Don’t judge me because I’m African-American.”
I hope someone at that event pointed out how sad and awful it is that Obama felt he needed to say this. And I love how the article treated questions about Obama’s race or religion as if they were as pertinent as the questions about his actual policies regarding Iran.
Posted 28 May 2008 at 11:49 pm ¶
Matt wrote:
.I love how possibly being Muslim automatically makes someone anti-Jewish and I wonder if this assumption even comes from Jewish communities or if it’s just projected, or both.
In polls (the latest I’ve seen is 2 weeks old now), with Obama head to head against McCain, Obama gets over 60% of the Jewish vote. Sure, it’s down from the 80% of the Jewish vote democrats can often count on from Jews, but it’s only slightly less than Clinton gets (66%).
Obama’s “Jewish problem” is an antisemitic press that keeps an obsessive focus on the Jewish vote.
Posted 29 May 2008 at 3:15 pm ¶