Letters to the Editor
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A word about the woman and the african american
I find it interesting that the first woman and african american man that have a shot at the presidency are really unrepresentative of their so-called base group. Basically, the message here is, if you're a woman running for president, you'd better have been first lady first--which excludes just about 99.9999999 percent of the population.
As far as African Americans are concerned, Obama's father is from Africa, and, during his short life was an academic. Obama was raised by his white grandparents in Hawaii. The question is not whether Obama is black enough; the question is whether anything in his personal narrative intersects with the peoples that his candidacy claims to represent. And it doesn't.
Something to think about when we talk about milestones. Clinton and Obama are sort of anti-milestones, and their candidacies may by their very nature, close, rather than open the door for women and african americans.