Focusing On White Men Rather Than White People

Rembrandt Brown

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Does anybody buy this?

It annoys the hell out of me to constantly hear this because it is so insincere. It's a way of hiding their white privilege, making it about "women" and "white men" rather than what it really is about, white women complaining about not being at the very top of the hierarchy.

They enjoy all the white privilege, all the wealth and inheritance, even benefit the most from affirmative action (while the stigma is strictly reserved for black men and women). They made "women earn 79 cents for every dollar earned by men" ubiquitous but it is ignored that white women earn more than black men, black women, latinos and latinas-- All you ever hear about is the white men. It's a very convenient con, all the benefits and none of the blame-- far from that, they claim "solidarity" with all the groups under them.

This isn't about Elizabeth Warren or the presidential race. This is just one example. (In this case, all the white women and some other women would still be complaining if Warren lost to Booker & Castro.)


'White men get to be the default': Women lament Warren's demise
Democrats struggle with how they ended up with two 70-something white men as the last two standing.
By LAURA BARRÓN-LÓPEZ
Politico
03/05/2020 07:59 PM EST


And then there were two white men in their late 70s.

Elizabeth Warren’s exit from the presidential race has left Democrats, including those who supported or ran rival campaigns, evaluating how the party arrived at Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders as the last two candidates standing.

Yes, they acknowledge that Tulsi Gabbard and her one earned delegate remain in the race. But if you’d told Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) a year ago that the final two candidates would be white and male — from a field that included a half-dozen women, three African Americans, a Latino, a gay man, and three Asian Americans — "no," she would not have believed you.

“It’s truly disheartening. I wanted her to succeed in the worst way,” Speier, who has not endorsed in the race, said of Warren. “I think the electorate has not come to the same level of enlightenment that many other countries around the world have: that a woman as president can be in the best interests of our country.”

California Sen. Kamala Harris entered the presidential race as one of the most promising Democratic candidates, only to drop out in December. She told reporters on Capitol Hill Thursday that there is “still a lot of work to be done to make it very clear that women are exceptionally qualified and capable of being the commander-in-chief of the United States of America.”

Warren likely failed for reasons more than gender: She was competing with Sanders for the progressive mantle, while also arguing she could bridge the two wings of the party better than her opponents. She stumbled during her rollout of a Medicare for All plan (though she also faced more pressure than Sanders early on to explain how she'd pay for it.) And she may have played nice for too long with her opponents.

But there's few denying, including the candidate herself, that gender played a key role. Acknowledging the differing expectations female candidates face presents a "trap," Warren said Thursday. When a woman points out she's held to a double standard, she said, she's labeled a "whiner."

Yet avoiding the topic of sexism isn't an option, either. Do that, Warren said, and a “bazillion women think, 'What planet do you live on?'”

Rep. Susan Wild (D-Pa.), who hasn’t endorsed in the primary and said she's at odds with Warren ideologically, nevertheless called Warren's withdrawal “heartbreaking.” Wild immediately thought of her children who supported Warren, including one who worked for the candidate in Iowa.

People always say, “Well, it’s not the right woman,” Wild said. “Well, who’s going to be the right woman? Look at us, we’re as diverse as you can get, we’re all different shapes, sizes, colors. So which one of us is the right woman?”

“That’s what makes me really frustrated. Because nobody ever says, well, 'He’s not the right man,'” she added.

In the last four years, female candidates have made historic gains. Hillary Clinton became the first woman to win the presidential nomination for a major political party and a record number of women ran and were elected to office in Congress.

And yet, said Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), there's something about a woman running for a top executive post that brings out "strange attitudes" in voters. "They think women are not tough enough, that we can't do the job." It’s something she said she experienced when running for governor in 2002 — though a Republican woman beat her in that race.

In his book, a Citizen’s Guide to Beating Donald Trump, David Plouffe asserted that “there is more resistance to a woman president then there is to any male minority group, or a male of any sexual orientation.”

“It really is the presidency now that that seems to be a harder ceiling,” Plouffe said in an interview. “Elizabeth Warren was put through a ... crucible of the electability question in a slightly different way than some of the other candidates were.”

Aimee Allison, co-founder of She the People, was on hand when Warren had what some considered a defining moment in her campaign in April. Warren was just starting to gain steam, and the energy was palpable as she received a raucous welcome from hundreds of black and brown women at an event in Houston the advocacy group for women of color in politics hosted.

But the separation between black and Latino female activists and operatives who rallied around Warren’s candidacy, and the actual voters who determined her fate, never bridged.

“My job is to make sure that women of color are encouraged to participate in democracy and yet today is a hard day for me to find the words,” Allison said in an interview. “What privilege is, is that white men get to be the default, they get to be the regular, they get to be the fallback position. And then everybody else ... is the other, is the exception, is the risk.”

Though Allison does not agree with many of Biden’s policies, she said that during her conversations with women of color in states that voted on Super Tuesday, it was clear many simply wanted a reset.

“It’s like we're striving to go to something that resembles some version of normal, even if that normal doesn't get our community's needs fully met,” she said.

Even though six women ran for president and failed, she doesn’t think it will deter other women from running. “It feels like a setback,” Allison said. “But right now, I can imagine a black woman vice president and that's never happened.”

Addisu Demissie, who ran Sen. Cory Booker’s campaign for president, said there’s a “skepticism" that women and candidates of color face but white men do not. Though the skepticism was never overt as Booker — one of two black men to run this cycle — traveled the country, Demissie said, it was always “lurking.”

“There is perceived safety in whiteness and maleness,” said Demissie. “There's a perceived risk in nominating women and people of color that was just too great for the electorate this time. It’s wrong and unfortunate and sad, but politics is about perception.”

Democrats interviewed for this story were careful not to diminish the success of Biden and Sanders, and said they're ready to unite behind the eventual nominee. But those who put their heart behind candidates like Warren, Harris and Booker feel the sting.

Biden and Sanders entered the race with high name ID and it may have been “destiny” that the former vice president and the runner up for the nomination in 2016 would be the last two standing, said Demissie. But “without question the driving force behind most voters decisions and who to vote for in this primary has been electability versus Donald Trump. And that has an inherent bias towards white males that accentuated their already built-in advantages.”

Jess Morales Rocketto, former digital organizing director for Hillary Clinton, said Warren’s fall was “disappointing” and made her feel the way she did after 2016.

But “I don't think that every woman is a referendum on all women,” Morales Rocketto said, and "We're going to lose, and lose, and lose, right up until we win.”

As Warren announced the end of her run Thursday, she recalled the pinky promises she made to young girls across the country when she took photos with families and women who waited in lines that snaked around high school gyms. “I’m running for president because that’s what girls do,” Warren would say.

“I take those pinky promises seriously,” Warren said. And as for the challenges she faced as a female candidate, Warren said, “I promise you this: I will have a lot more to say on that subject later on.”


 


But when it suits them, it's just "women" vs "white men."



^^^^

All I can say is "Preach."

i love me some ol' pole climbing -confederate flag snatching Bree !! she is so spot on with her readings on structural make up of american society !its no joke ! #ados tried to come for her once and she ate stevette up then her minions tried to come for her too and she ate them all too!
 
I bet most of them wouldn't say they were bothered by Dems picking a white person...

White Democrats Far More ‘Bothered’ Than Blacks, Hispanics That Joe Biden is a White Male: New Poll
By Charlie Nash, Mediaite
Apr 21st

White Democrats are far more likely to be bothered by the fact that presumptive 2020 Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is an old white male than Hispanic and black Democrats, according to Pew Research.

Forty-nine percent of white Democrats were reportedly “bothered” that the nominee is “a white man in his 70s,” while, ironically, just 30 percent of Hispanic Democrats and 28 percent of black Democrats felt the same.

Democrats between the ages of 18 and 29 were also more concerned (54 percent) than older generations, along with postgraduates (58 percent).

The more formal education a respondent had, the more they were concerned by Biden’s old, white, male body, according to the poll, and just 24 percent of those with a high school education or less were bothered. ...


 
“I do not buy the concept, popular in the ’60s, which said, ‘We have suppressed the black man for 300 years and the white man is now far ahead in the race for everything our society offers. In order to even the score, we must now give the black man a head start, or even hold the white man back, to even the race. I don’t buy that,” Biden said to a weekly newspaper in Delaware in 1975. "I don’t feel responsible for the sins of my father and grandfather. I feel responsible for what the situation is today, for the sins of my own generation. And I’ll be damned if I feel responsible to pay for what happened 300 years ago.” - Democratic Nominee for President Joe Biden

great point and admission on the type people YOU support.

This shouldn't be a surprise, Trump is a mirror image of shit men/white supremacy. Most White men want to be unapologetic, racist assholes and sees them selves at the top of the food chain.
 
“I do not buy the concept, popular in the ’60s, which said, ‘We have suppressed the black man for 300 years and the white man is now far ahead in the race for everything our society offers. In order to even the score, we must now give the black man a head start, or even hold the white man back, to even the race. I don’t buy that,” Biden said to a weekly newspaper in Delaware in 1975. "I don’t feel responsible for the sins of my father and grandfather. I feel responsible for what the situation is today, for the sins of my own generation. And I’ll be damned if I feel responsible to pay for what happened 300 years ago.” - Democratic Nominee for President Joe Biden

great point and admission on the type people YOU support.


Look, you only started commenting in these threads and talking against white people since you were called on it. You ain't fooling anyone, you and KingThacac are stormfront agents.
 
Someone once said to me "if white supremacy is a table who else do you eats off that table too".


:roflmao3:
 
Duckworth said she would only be voting for Biden's 'diversity nominees,' which she defined as non-white, as well as members of the LGBTQ community. Later Tuesday, Sen. Mazie Hirono, who's also of Asian descent, said she agreed with Duckworth's stance and would also only vote for 'diversity nominees.'

I am AMAZED that she did not give white women a pass here...

Everybody knows I'm pro-LGBT equality but it is crazy to me how white LGBT people get a pass from being white. To me, they are still white. There were plenty of LGBT slave owners (okay, LGB) and they don't get a pass in my book.
 

“If you need to give her more things to do because you are feeling pressure about your crappy longtime record on diversity — which, by the way, I know personally from the female side of it — like, go for it. Just find it somewhere else. You are not going to find it from me or taking my thing away.”
 
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