Race and Winning the Race

[Crooked Moon]

if obama wins the nomination, his supporters (and all democrats, for that matter) better goddamn well work hard to get him elected and in a position to succeed.

because, in my view — given the frequency and intensity with which his surrogates, supporters and "friendly" press generate, embrace and seek to gain political advantage from hypersensitive and often manufactured outrage regarding race — if he fizzles, it'll be a century before another person of color will be able to mount an effective campaign for president without the fear that it'll descend once again into a fatigue-fest of race cards flying from every corner.

the same, of course, holds true for clinton and the sexism card, although (rightly or wrongly) accusations of that nature are increasingly being shrugged off, while race seems to be a far more traded currency.

[leftofcool]

1. And it is going to be very subtle.........

[Crooked Moon]

2. perhaps

thus far, it's been about as subtle as a sledgehammer.

[Cant trust em]

3. I hate to play the "My group is discriminated more than your group game" but...

I disagree that Obama has had the racism card played in his favor more than Clinton has had the sexism card played. Let me first be clear that I don't think that either campaign has been involved heavily in race or sexism baiting. But their supporters have been throwing accusations out there rather blithely, in my opinion. To a Clinton supporter who makes the sexism claim, using a word that is only a word used for females, but has the same intended purpose of a different word, is sexist. I guess if I called her a jerk instead of a bitch then I'm in the clear. Who gives an F if it means the same thing? I'm not into semantics games.

[Crooked Moon]

4. fair points

and i agree it is far more a matter of supporters agitating than it is the campaigns.