2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Very intersting opinion piece by a Black man on the Sanders campaign [View all]lunamagica
(9,967 posts)"We are not impressed by Bernies lack of polish and quirky persona. Do you know why Barrack Obama is the president right now? Its greatly because he played the political game masterfully. You know why he played the game masterfully? Because as a talented African American Im sure that years prior someone let him know he had to be twice as good in order to get half as much as the Bernies of the world. In his case he is three times as good so he became a two term president, who again Bernie had the nerve to throw shade at. I could say the same for Hillary Clinton. When you arent a straight, white, male legislating in arguably the whitest state in the country, you might come across a situation where you need learn how to wear a decent suit, how to speak with more finesse, and avoid odd tics in your speaking presence just so you can be taken seriously. When youre black or a woman you dont have the privilege of being quirky if you want to be a leader. The fact that Bernie flaunts these obvious flaws as some type of endearing trait lets us know that he really doesnt get it."
I replied how I was glad that someone pointed this out, agreed, and gave examples of it. I never said or implied anything about their personalities. Perhaps I shouldn't have used the word "quirk", but hey, I'm not as gifted as a writer as many on DU are.
The comparisons I made are not about personalities. It's about how much harder women and PoC have to work, and how they can get away with much less that a white man can.
Like for example, do you think PBO or HRC had had an out of wedlock child it would have gone practically unnoticed? I think that if it had been one of them, this would have been a BIG, BIG deal.
I don't know how can I make this any more clear, but the post you replied to was never about personalities.