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In reply to the discussion: I really like Gov. Whitmer, but ... We're looking at white privilege in real time [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)and could tell us. Would "the conscience of the congress" tell us Biden has a duty to subjugate all other considerations to race? That naming a non-black woman his running mate would be a very wrong and overtly racist act?
Not only do I feel there's something wrong with that, even if I can't quite pin it down (need Lewis's help here), I'm also distressed at the continued subjugation of women's rights to others in the civil rights movement. We all witnessed the enthusiasm of many here for primarying women, some of whom were just elected to congress in "the year of the woman," so they could be replaced with a man (of any color except white). Imo, the contempt for merely advancing the rights of women, the idea that only naming a woman would be a great moral failure and betrayal of all Americans, is more of the same at a higher level.
Electing our first woman VP of any color wrongs no one except the entire male population who were cut out of consideration. Oh, right... That discrimination does wrong them. But at least the ones we'd have wanted anyway won't need John Lewis to explain what they gain along with everyone else.