Comments on: Hilary and Harriet Tubman http://www.racismreview.com/blog/2008/08/27/hilary-and-harriet-tubman/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:55:24 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Terror in the Heartland » racismreview.com: Hilary and Harriet Tubman http://www.racismreview.com/blog/2008/08/27/hilary-and-harriet-tubman/comment-page-1/#comment-4944 Terror in the Heartland » racismreview.com: Hilary and Harriet Tubman Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:05:09 +0000 http://www.racismreview.com/blog/?p=492#comment-4944 [...] racismreview.com: Hilary and Harriet Tubman Tags: elections ,politics ,race ,whiteness links-a-go-go — McChris @ 12:05 pm [...] [...] racismreview.com: Hilary and Harriet Tubman Tags: elections ,politics ,race ,whiteness links-a-go-go — McChris @ 12:05 pm [...]

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]]> By: Jessie http://www.racismreview.com/blog/2008/08/27/hilary-and-harriet-tubman/comment-page-1/#comment-4939 Jessie Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:39:47 +0000 http://www.racismreview.com/blog/?p=492#comment-4939 Excellent point(s), Mordy. Like I said, I totally get that she was "on message" and anything else would have distracted from that goal. Still, it would have been nice, not to mention unusual, if she could have not been so completely tone-deaf on matters of race. Joe, Adia, I and others writing here have all chastised the media for the false race/gender dichotomy, but it's pols like Hilary that lead the way on such limited conceptualizations of gender, race and politics. Excellent point(s), Mordy. Like I said, I totally get that she was “on message” and anything else would have distracted from that goal. Still, it would have been nice, not to mention unusual, if she could have not been so completely tone-deaf on matters of race. Joe, Adia, I and others writing here have all chastised the media for the false race/gender dichotomy, but it’s pols like Hilary that lead the way on such limited conceptualizations of gender, race and politics.

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]]> By: Mordy http://www.racismreview.com/blog/2008/08/27/hilary-and-harriet-tubman/comment-page-1/#comment-4938 Mordy Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:22:44 +0000 http://www.racismreview.com/blog/?p=492#comment-4938 Good post Jessie. I think the context of her speech has to be considered when making broader observations. It seems to me anyway that her dual purpose in making the speech was to voice her support for Barack Obama and to try to reach her lunatic fringe supporters to convince them to support him as well. Any discussion of reproductive health, or race / gender relations would have complicated the message. And by a fair amount of press reports, it is questionable whether she achieved the latter of those missions. Good post Jessie. I think the context of her speech has to be considered when making broader observations. It seems to me anyway that her dual purpose in making the speech was to voice her support for Barack Obama and to try to reach her lunatic fringe supporters to convince them to support him as well. Any discussion of reproductive health, or race / gender relations would have complicated the message. And by a fair amount of press reports, it is questionable whether she achieved the latter of those missions.

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