Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 285
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ljwalker53
[Read the article: What Pennsylvania tells us]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But she is centrist on foreign policy - not something the left likes or wants to hear (which is also why they support Obama).
Blaming lefty Democrats again, eh, ljwalker53? Wasn't it just Hillary who said she'd obliterate Iran and wasn't it Obama who said he'd seek diplomatic solutions? If it weren't for liberals, we wouldn't have child labor laws, women wouldn't be able to vote, and I'd still be a slave.
Maybe your party's left is being tired of being beat up by your party's loser centrists. Maybe this is the push that people need to get them to leave the Democratic party. Let the Democrats try to win without their progressive wing. I'm seriously beginning to consider third-party candidate Cynthia McKinney. Heck, she black, a woman, seriously opposed to the Iraq occupation, wants to address our oil dependence and, to top it all off, has more national experience than either Hillary or Barack.
And this is coming out of the mouth of a person who has has voted straight Democrat for her entire voting life. A person who represents THE core democrat voter--black (so, according to Clinton and her supporters, I voted for Obama cause I'm prejudiced), female (who is a traitor to other females for not supporting Hillary Clinton), intellectual with a masters degree (elitist), urban (code: black) and progressive (latte liberal).
It's not all these working-class white people or even white women who are the most reliable Democrats, the group Democrats cannot afford to lose and still have a chance in hell at capturing the presidency. It's people that look (and vote) like me.
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tom payne
[Read the article: What Pennsylvania tells us]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Amen.
I do, however, think the party has a Left. We've just capitulated to the conservatives in the party because it was the only way they figured they get any liberal policies enacted. Fat chance. How's that worked out? The centrist Democrats, led by Bill Clinton, eliminated welfare.
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dickginnold: Thanks for your great post
[Read the article: What Pennsylvania tells us]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We need to hear more voices like yours.
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It's increasingly difficult to read these letters on Salon
[Read the article: Whose fault is the Clinton-Obama stalemate?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The racism is really appalling. What's worse is that these professed Democrats spouting the garbage believe they're just "telling the truth."
stfu
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Sexism and racism
[Read the article: Keith Olbermann apologizes for his Clinton remark]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I, too, Joan, applaud Salon’s coverage of the sexist obstacles Senator Clinton has faced in her campaign. What’s really too bad is that discussion such as these are muffled when the isms aren’t on display as they are here in a national campaign and are forced into the Broadsheet ghetto. What I’d like to see more of in Salon and elsewhere, however, is a more complex discussion of gender issues.
One that is missing is how racism and sexism intersect (we could also throw in class and sexuality). Salon has done a good job during this campaign and on Broadsheet highlighting the sexism that white women face, but I think some of your readers (little lord Baltimore and Salon Fan immediately come to mind) have been accurate in pointing out that it fails dismally when it comes to writing about issues that women of color face. And they are different, mainly because our history is different--black women and other women of color worked when white women didn’t (Rosie the Riveter should’ve been a different color); they’ve been sexualized in ways white women haven’t; White women haven’t been sterilized en masse or faced institutionalized rape (note the word institutionalized here). The list goes on.
I believe that a more fruitful analysis can be made if we all stop falling into the trap that is set for us: the divide and conquer trap. Black feminist believe in equality for all; not just equality for white women. If we examined how all these isms work together, we could work for freedom for all, including white women.
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Rocky57
[Read the article: Flagging America's racial divide]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"...So, in addition to witnessing racial violence, we are watching a white man come to the rescue of a black man. We may also be looking at something more complex: the moment in American history where class begins to supersede race. What sets Landsmark apart from the crowd, after all, is not just his color but his dress. Take away the fact of his race, and he still represents everything Southies would despise: a Yale-educated lawyer in a three-piece suit, sticking his nose into workingmen's business. (Although his attackers didn't know it, Landsmark was heading to City Hall to lobby for minority hiring in construction jobs.) For the first time, perhaps, we are seeing the flag transformed into a weapon of class warfare..."
Louis, are you insane? Could you honestly posit that that flag would have been wielded at a white man in a three piece suit after he had been set upon and pummeled by Marky-Mark like South Boston toughs?
This is why I get so exasperated when I read stuff like the paragraph you cited above. I've written this here before, but I thinks it bears repeating: Race, gender and class are inextricably linked. When you write something like the above and tried to single out the ism at work, you can be misled.
You're right Rocky57 when you contend that the response would have been different if it was a white man in a three-piece suit. But what is also true is that the response could've been different if it were a black man in a working class uniform. Or what about a black woman in a three-piece suit? To those Southies, it is quite possible that they were reacting to a black man that they presumed was richer than they, that he was offensive on two different levels. At any rate, how the attacked man's gender, race and class works in concert bears scrutiny.