tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5259987174286806588.post8697653432856664265..comments2023-05-08T03:41:41.407-06:00Comments on Departed Gray Matter: Progressives aren't Progressive unless they are ProgressiveYarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15613466446966050404noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5259987174286806588.post-16783918859033680062008-01-20T17:25:00.000-07:002008-01-20T17:25:00.000-07:00P.S. Hope you resolved your water issues.P.S. Hope you resolved your water issues.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5259987174286806588.post-19784279991117920202008-01-20T17:24:00.000-07:002008-01-20T17:24:00.000-07:00How many progressives have made the same argument ...How many progressives have made the same argument about Kucinich..."Oh I really love Kucinich but he's not electable." A self fulfilling prophecy. I am so beyond identification politics that race/gender isn't even a part of my radar. The bottom line is that Hillary and Obama's voting records are almost the same. This fear that Hillary is not electable has nothing to do with her sex but the fear that she's been demonized so much by the right that she won't be electable because she won't be able to overcome the negatives. I think it's crap and as long as democrats keep cowering in the corner rather than standing tall and making a case for our side then - she won't be electable. Just like we let the other side demonize the "L" word to the point of us now using the more acceptable word "progressive" - we stand by and let them demonize our candidates and our beliefs. That's just crap as is the notiong that "America is not ready to elect a black president." I don't agree. America is ready. There's a big swath of the country who is not ready to admit their own racisim and therefore THEY can't vote for a black candidate out of some irrational fear - but America is ready and those who are going to hang on to this kind of craziness need to get out of the way.<BR/><BR/>As the white half of an interracial couple - I must say that it never once entered our minds not to have kids because the children would be presecuted. I don't know anyone who thinks like that. I feel sorry for anyone who does - it means they live their life in fear. Any thoughts of persecution of my children is not because they are biracial but rather because they are considered black by our society and blacks are persecuted to this day in America. So blacks shouldn't have children because they might be presecuted? I don't think anyone would ever suggest that. Obama is the product of an interracial union himself.<BR/><BR/>My husband and I divorced over the same things white couples divorce over - not because of race.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com