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And clearly, you don't understand.
That t-shirt sums the feelings of many, even if you're not one of them.
Maybe it should have been the other way around. Obama has my vote... but Hillary has my heart.
Sorry. That kitchen comment was just tasteless. It's as if you're saying that anyone who supported Obama is anti-feminist, or traditionalist... or mysogynistic.
Bull-sh*t. I looked at her positions, I looked at Obama's positions. I left my mind open, because Richardson was my candidate. Obama's positions edged hers out for me. Not by much, but they did. And one of the reasons why is because he wanted to speak out for fathers, and I think fathers have been neglected far too long. Good, strong fathers enable women to be breadwinners without guilt. Advocates for fathers help them get the jobs they need to make child-support possible.
Not every father is a dead-beat. And I applauded his decision to put fathers on his platform.
And yes, I also supported him because he's half black. And my 82 year old mother, who was my first feminist role-model, set those roots aside, because she's been black longer than she's been a feminist, and she wants Obama to win. So yes, she swayed me.
And last... deep in my heart, I was more prepared to support Obama than I was to support Hillary. The way she won the New York senate seat left a very sour taste in my mouth. As far as I was concerned, it was silver spoon. On top of that, she voted for the war. And deep down, I realized that if it had been any other woman senator or governor, whom I felt had come by the position without a "husbandly boost", it would have been a harder decision.
But Obama had a harder road, and I think that's one of the reasons why I respect him.
Hillary is a gutsy woman who has broken unbelievable ground. But she's had an advantage unprecedented in US politics. Her husband is a reasonably popular past president.
Women who get where they are because of who their husbands or lovers are make me barf. If that makes me "anti-feminist", then shoot me. But as a black woman, I can assure you, very few of us ever have that kind of advantage. So, I'll always give more credit to Shirley Chisholm than I can give to Hillary Clinton.
If you don't remember her, she ran for president as a Democratic nominee back in 1972. Thirty six years ago. But darn... her husband wasn't president. Frankly, SHE had guts. Then, there was Elizabeth Dole. Married to an ex-VICE president... who wouldn't endorse her, and told her that he thought there were better candidates. After doing viagra commercials.
People act as if Hillary was the first woman to run under the Democratic ticket. Bull-sh*t. A black woman was first. And I'll keep pointing it out until I'm blue in the face.
Back in the kitchen? You can kiss my black feminist *ss.
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