White Woman/Black Man - The Forbidden Ticket
It's terrible isn't it? Democrats having to choose between a white woman and a black man? I mean, really. Why can't at least one of them be a Republican?
Oh yeah...
Anyway, I saw this piece by Gloria Steinem: Besides,HeWasInDiapersWhenIWasAPlayboyBunny over at Broadsides: Don'tLookAtMe,I'mHideous and, well, she's right - isn't she (Gloria Steinem, I mean - Antonia looks better'n ever, of course).
But maybe women in the New World will always be second class citizens. Maybe there is some sort of common genetic flaw in the people who came over here that won't allow us, generations later, to overcome sexism. And maybe everbody who has come here since is equally flawed. Maybe it's not so much a matter of running deep as running deep AND broad, so to speak, our inability to conceive of a Woman in the White House (or on Parliament Hill - that's right - Kim Campbell doesn't count - double Xs squared to infinity) in fortress North America.
Anyway, it's too bad there's this gender/race subplot going on in the Democrats' race to the White House because Obama's the right man at the right time for Democrats and Republicans alike, I think, and if he's smart, he'll stay the course and keep his hands on the table where everybody can see them.
But it sure seems like a waste of diversity that the white woman and the black man have to square off at the same time after all these years of Good Ol' Boys.
(In Canada it'd be like... uh... hm... Okay, let's do the black man side... uh... hm... Oh, nevermind. Maybe next millennium.)
Not that any of it matters anyway, since that uncanny ability of the people who decide who's going to represent their party in an election campaign will be quite able to look past gender AND colour straight on through to John Edwards.
And that's where the Republicans have the jump start on the Democrats, if you ask me. They don't even have to bother looking past gender and colour. They're right there at the White Man leader already.
