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What does Hillary want?
What would it take for Clinton to concede defeat? An insider remembers -- and draws lessons from -- the backroom deals that ended another brutal, racially charged Democratic slugfest.
By Dan Conley [2008-05-08]

  • there's an interesting convo going on over at the "george wallace" article

    which has elucidated the pointlessness of calling anybody racist. Actually, weeping for brunnhilde has been doing most of the elucidating; that guy is way too good for this forum.

    Anyway, 08, I think you're wrong about Smith. She's not "a racist"; she's just oblivious to her own privilege, and does not view it as important. Obliviousness to one's privilege can be construed as racism, because it indicates that one is ignorant of one's own role within a racist system, but it's not the same as bigotry, which is what I think you're talking about.

    -- squalorholla
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    Thursday, May 8, 2008 10:02 PM
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