Interesting quote from Ferraro

[americanstranger]

NYT Via TPM:

“All evidence is that a white female has an advantage over a black male — for reasons of our cultural heritage,” said the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, the civil rights leader who ran for president in 1984 and 1988. Still, he said, for African-American and female candidates, “It’s easier — emphatically so.”

Ms. Ferraro offered a similar sentiment. “I think it’s more realistic for a woman than it is for an African-American,” said Ms. Ferraro. “There is a certain amount of racism that exists in the United States — whether it’s conscious or not it’s true.”

“Women are 51 percent of the population,” she added.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/183170.php

This quote is from 2006, talking about what could be expected in the current primary.

I think now that it might not be so much racism on Ferraro's part (although embedded racism is definitely still a large part of the equation). It looks more like she was expecting Clinton to have an easy time with it and is pissed because Obama fucked up the plan.

On Edit: And as I re-read the quote, she acknowledges that there is racism being practiced that people may not even recognize as racism. I'm left to assume, in the light of her more recent comments that she does not feel that could possibly apply to her, though.

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[havocmom]

1. Women do make up a slime majority, but any pol who thinks all women will vote for any woman

is as dumb as a stick or a sexist.

Fact: most of the nation has evolved far beyond the isms and ists that Ferraro seems hung up on using for political strategy. HRC is a very bright woman. She has some fair credentials, but her choices in advisers over the past few years as she geared up for this run leave me convinced she is not the person for the job.

Picking and maintaining advisers tells a lot about how someone would address an executive position. The tin ears Clinton has had around her suggest a whole group so out of touch with America as to be really sad.

I have worked all my life to improve the lot of women. My mom did the same. My sister too. Grandma worked for the right of women to vote then she worked every election day until she died (at the polling place) to assure no women would be denied her right to vote. I would love to see a woman president. But any pol who figures I will vote for someone because of her organs is just fucking dumb.

Vote for the person. Skin and plumbing mean nothing to the quality of the person. There are plenty of really bad women and men of all colors. And plenty of good ones to support.

Geraldine was just showing her own biases and foolishness. Glad she is history.