On Gender and Race

To be Hillary, you must endure the distain of your image being placed on a "nutcracker": the nuts leveraged between thighs. Obama is derided as a "Halfrican" by Rush Limbaugh, and he produced a song on his so-called talk show called "Barack: the Magic Negro." (Think: Puff, the Magic Dragon).

Beyond the attacks the candidates levy against each other, the dark underbelly of sexism and racism is being exposed daily.

Will all due respect: I cannot agree with Gloria Steinem that gender, not race is the "most restricting force in America." Your mothers were not restricted when my mothers worked the field and birthed black and mulatto babies. Your mothers shared the wealth gotten from free labor, and the "women's place in the home" as your wealthy fathers pursued politics and developed an acumen that modern southern gentlemen STILL possess. Your mothers had servants while still staying home. My mothers WERE the servants while still trying to maintain a home.

What are we afraid of? Do we really want change, or merely the "feeling" of change?

This is a wide open, exciting election. I have my qualms about the super delegates that could decide for the Democratic nominee and the Supreme Court possibly poised to decide for the rest of us if McCain gets to a squeaker finish in either Florida or Ohio, or does state even matter?

What are elites afraid of that they push out Rush to do their dirty work, and Chris Matthews spewing comments like "the only reason she might be a front-runner is because her husband messed around?" Why did Bob Johnson allude to Barack's former drug usage -- admitted in his book (NOT his community activism) -- as a surrogate to the Clinton machine? And lastly, why is Rush so concerned with our seeing a woman age in the office of the presidency? We've seen countless MEN age in the office since 1776. I'm sure Mr. Limbaugh and the rest of the country will adjust and survive either the first Woman or African American president (and, if he were to check all of our lineage, about 25% of us are kind of all "halfricans": it was called rape, without witness, habeas corpus or trial). Are you, white males, so disturbed that your base inclinations surface in subtle and overt attacks as someone ELSE might occupy "The 'White' House" for the first time since this country's inception that does not remind you of the typical Eurocentric "high father"?

Is this a democracy? I wonder sometimes. TGP