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Who Can Beat Obama?
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  Be the first of your friends to like this.Excerpt: President Obama's election is due, in part, to the desire among many American liberals and leftists to be seen as "atoning" for the sin of racism and the crimes of slavery. The fact that Obama is bi-racial—his mother was white—matters little since he looks like an African-American. Indeed, the President's own writing focuses on his African, Muslim roots, especially because his Kenyan father abandoned both him and his mother. In an era of symbolic identity politics and affirmative action, only one kind of candidate could trump Obama's credentials and that would be an African-American woman. Only such a candidate could symbolically address the sin and crime of sexism as well as that of racism. Ironically, the first woman who ever ran in a major party primary for the American Presidency did so in 1972. That was Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm, whose parents immigrated from British Guiana and Barbados. In 2004, Senator Carol Moseley Braun, also an African-American woman, ran in a major party primary for the American Presidency. Both women failed in their bids. Read the complete original version of this item... | ||||||
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