Inspired by Kristen Breitweiser and FlyingTiger: "This One's For the Blacks"

[Berry Cool]

Like FlyingTiger, I figured that if Kristen Breitweiser's "This One's For The Girls" is as completely politically correct as some people seem to be claiming, then they surely won't have a problem with me posting my own response to that article. It's slightly different from FlyingTiger's, but I hope I make a similar point.

(For those of you who haven't seen the thread, you can find it here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph... )

When it comes to getting work done and cleaning up messes, blacks are better than whites.

This is part of the reason of why Barack Obama is the better candidate in '08.

Our country is a mess. It's going to require a lot of unglamorous, grunt work and perhaps a bit of a bad rap to clean it all up. To me, it sounds like a job for a black person, because if there were ever a house that needed cleaning up, it would be our current WH.

For centuries, black people were the ones who tirelessly and (and perhaps truly miraculously) cleaned up the messes, unplugged the toilets, nurtured the children, and made sure everyone is as happy as can be at day's end. I get that. You get that. And perhaps more than any of us, Barack Obama gets that.

He isn't too precious to do the grunt work. He is a black man. And so why not?

Every black person has some degree of experience with white people. And collectively we all know the truth: black people are better. We are better at getting work done. We are better at cleaning up messes. We are tougher and more tireless. We are smart and strategic. And that is why we should all be supporting Barack because, (sorry whites) now more than ever this one should be for the blacks.

In short: If you find the idea that "blacks are naturally better at cleaning up messes that white people make than white people are" offensive, you should be equally offended by the idea that women are better cleaning up after the messes men make--and that this is the reason to make Hillary Clinton the president.

And if you weren't offended by that, how about those paragraphs in which Barack Obama is essentially described as being, in the eyes of his own wife, a shiftless, lazy man who doesn't hold up his end of the work around the house, with the subsequent implication by Ms. Breitweiser that if he were president, he'd be equally shiftless and lazy at that job? More racism...coupled with sexism, with the assumption being that it's all because he's a man, and that's why we need a woman in the White House. Because while Barack would be down in the den popping a beer and watching sports on TV, Hillaary would be rolling up her sleeves and preparing to scrub!

It doesn't matter which candidate you support...Breitweiser's arguments are stupid, sexist, racist and offensive.

[lapfog_1]

1. It's called misandry, and it's rampant here at DU from Hillary

supporters. And it seems to be perfectly OK with them.

[TheDoorbellRang]

2. You've just shown the best way to figure out

when something is sexist/racist -- substitute someone of a different race or sex and see how off-putting it sounds. Thanks for the eye-opener.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

3. Yikes, aren't we Democrats supposed to be enjoying the fact that no one wants to vote R.

Well, there's the heartfelt few R's. And, then there's the rest of the country.

[Yael]

4. Happy to K&R this -- thanks for compiling!