Letters to the Editor
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Now Wait A Minute
A recent Atlantic monthly article made exactly the same point as Ferraro, if a bit more eruditely, that Obama benefits from who he is because of the impact of his being African-american because of so-called soft diplomacy. That means, as the Atlantic Monthly article points out, a young Pakastani seeing the image of a brown-faced American president named Barack Hussein Obama whose father is Kenyan, mother white American, raised in Hawaii and Indonesia, is going to think there has been a change in American politics simply because of his face. Image alone carries a wallop. What is wrong with The Atlantic making the point that Obama's face counts when Ferraro can't make the same argument, if less adroitly? Aren't both "racist" comments? Aren't both actually correct, even if not exactly PC?