Showing posts with label Shirley Franklin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shirley Franklin. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Whatever You Do, Keep The Womenfolk Happy

I feel like I have to preface this by saying that I am a feminist, of sorts.

But, I do like to call a spade a spade. And right now, Hillary supporters are dealing a royal flush to the party hand up top and has the party by the, um, (can I say that on here) down low. Now, I'm all about feministing, but I think there is a bit of overcompensation going on. The chair and all the co-chairs are women. Most of the keynote address appear to be addressed specifically to women. And, every wo-man on the street interview that I see, Hillary supports seem pretty bitter. Like...Obama won the nod, dude. Chill.

We don't have to let the pendulum swing off the rocker on the other side. Equality is not about making something that was all-white, all black. Or all-male, all female. It's a dialectic development, maybe. But its not progressive.

And as an aside, if Clinton had won the nomination, would the party be working as hard to make sure they kept the black vote? To reconcile the party?

Shout out to my girl Shirley Franklin though. She's having a rough time at home but she's doing her thing on the national level.