Uncategorized
-
So Long, Hillary. We'll Miss You!
It is time to say farewell to a glorious campaign that stretched the limits of political correctness, nepotism and stopped just a few thousand votes from obliterating one kind of glass ceiling. We will miss you, Billary Clinton; you made the last 16 months a blast. In memory of this overwhelmingly entertaining (and underwhelming-ly planned)…
-
Cruel Intentions?
I know a woman who, a few years ago, suffered a miscarriage about halfway through her pregnancy. A week or so after the event, she telephoned me in tears, sobbing so hard it took five full minutes to calm her down. It wasn’t just the miscarriage, she said, but the terrible things people were saying…
-
Breaking the Glass Ceiling Takes Grace
It was the refrain echoed again and again throughout Hillary Clinton’s campaign: It was time, her supporters claimed, for a woman to be president. It made me angry, and it made me tired, the way that white women assumed that my support of Barack Obama was a race thing; a “stand by your man” thing,…
-
Obama Wins, Pigs Fly
Lawd, have mercy! They said pigs would fly, fish would whistle and lost souls would be shivering in hell before a major political party anointed a presidential standard bearer who is not only black but actually dances like one. Well, those wonders may not have occurred, but I’ve been sweeping up shards from the glass…
-
Just Give It Up, Geraldine!
Geraldine Ferraro, the self-appointed angry spokesperson for Hillary Clinton’s historic White House bid, is on yet another tear about Barack Obama. This time she’s speaking for all the misunderstood white, working-class, voters who say they won’t vote for Obama— not because he’s black, but because they believe he has a black agenda. Apparently, in her…
-
The Supers Speak
The Democratic nomination process is apparently over. Thank goodness. It is now up to the superdelegates to seal the deal. In recent days, four black superdelegates—two supporters of Sen. Barack Obama and two of Sen. Hillary Clinton—discussed the tortuous primary campaign and what should happen after today’s contests in Montana and South Dakota. Clinton endorsers…
-
Que Pasa Puerto Rico?
So what’s up Puerto Rico? People have consistently tried to tell me that the nations of Latin America are color-blind societies, that racism is simply not an issue in politics or anywhere else. My research in the last five years has told a different story. Despite the fact that many in Latin America claim that…
-
The Jungle Book
When the book came out in early March, few seemed to notice anything wrong. The first dozen reader reviews on its Amazon page were uniformly glowing, with many mentioning how they’d long admired the author’s blog. It’s a Jungle Out There: The Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments is Amanda Marcotte’s first book, but the author is a…
-
Return of the 'Real' White People
I’m glad to see that real white people are back, the kind that justify the Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s paranoia. For a while I assumed those kinds of white people had disappeared into the multiculti, Starbuck-sipping, bilingual, globe-trotting crowd that I routinely run across in our nation’s capital—the kind you read about on Stuffwhitepeoplelike.com—the kind I…
-
Lakers in Seven
Before we delve into the very closely matched NBA finals, which start Thursday, let me offer a parallel to the LeBron James situation. The superb year and frustrating end that he and his Cleveland Cavaliers experienced are very similar to the middle phase of the career of one the NBA’s all-time greats, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. In…