I’m Black and a Woman: Let Me Know When You Decide Which Knee I’m Supposed to Jerk, OK?

Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.


San Francisco Chronicle:

It’s just strange to watch some of the nation’s pioneering elected black leaders – civil rights heroes who raised our self-awareness, our political power and who helped define our self-determination – withholding their support for the most legitimate black presidential candidate in the nation’s history.

So, blacks are supposed to vote for any “legitimate” black presidential candidate, all other considerations aside. Also, I’m to believe that the undeniable misogyny Clinton has faced amounts to a left-wingpsychological gang bang“. Ted Kennedy’s endorsement of Obama is:

“…the greatest betrayal! We are repaid with his abandonment! He’s picked the new guy over us. He’s joined the list of progressive white men who can’t or won’t handle the prospect of a woman president who is Hillary Clinton (they will of course say they support a woman president, just not “this” one). ‘They’ are Howard Dean and Jim Dean (Yup! That’s Howard’s brother) who run DFA (that’s the group and list from the Dean campaign that we women helped start and grow). They are Alternet, Progressive Democrats of America, democrats.com, Kucinich lovers and all the other groups that take women’s money, say they’ll do feminist and women’s rights issues one of these days, and conveniently forget to mention women and children when they talk about poverty or human needs or America’s future or whatever.

Negroes, sisters: if you can’t think in more than one dimension, speak for your own damn selves! Especially if you’re going to be hysterical. No wonder young blacks support Obama and young (ignorant, ungrateful) women think feminism is passe.

Fact:

Mother Jones was founded as a nonprofit in 1976 because we knew corporations and billionaires wouldn't fund the type of hard-hitting journalism we set out to do.

Today, reader support makes up about two-thirds of our budget, allows us to dig deep on stories that matter, and lets us keep our reporting free for everyone. If you value what you get from Mother Jones, please join us with a tax-deductible donation today so we can keep on doing the type of journalism 2022 demands.

payment methods

Fact:

Today, reader support makes up about two-thirds of our budget, allows us to dig deep on stories that matter, and lets us keep our reporting free for everyone. If you value what you get from Mother Jones, please join us with a tax-deductible donation today so we can keep on doing the type of journalism 2022 demands.

payment methods

We Recommend

Latest

Sign up for our free newsletter

Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily to have our top stories delivered directly to your inbox.

Get our award-winning magazine

Save big on a full year of investigations, ideas, and insights.

Subscribe

Support our journalism

Help Mother Jones' reporters dig deep with a tax-deductible donation.

Donate