Geraldine Ferraro, Closet Racist?
Geraldine Ferraro has ignited a political controversy with a remark she made last week in a telephone interview with the Daily Breeze, based in Torrance, California.
"If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position," she continued. "And if he was a woman (of any color) he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is. And the country is caught up in the concept."
Apparently, Ferraro thinks the only reason Barack Obama has performed as well as he has in this campaign is because he’s black and white people are trying to assuage some sense of collective guilt over the nation’s history of slavery and oppression. Otherwise, Ferraro implies, he would have been laughed out of the race long ago.
Some might be inclined to overlook Ferraro’s statement as a simple case of poor wording from the nation’s first female vice presidential candidate who is also a strong supporter of Hillary Clinton. Not so fast. This isn’t the first time she’s made a disparaging remark about a black presidential candidate. What’s even more ominous is that her previous comment about Jesse Jackson, in an interview with the Washington Post during Jackson’s 1988 presidential bid, is almost identical to what she had to say about Barack Obama.
…And former representative Geraldine A. Ferraro (D-N.Y.) said Wednesday that because of his "radical" views, "if Jesse Jackson were not black, he wouldn’t be in the race."
Geraldine Ferraro seems to think the only possible reason a black man can perform well in the race for the White House is the color of his skin combined with mobs of white people on a guilt trip. Even worse, when called to answer for her remarks, she claimed that she was the victim of racism and lamented that it’s O.K. to be sexist but not to be racist.
"Racism works in two different directions. I really think they’re attacking me because I’m white. How’s that?"
“It’s O.K. in this country to be sexist,” she said then. “’It’s certainly not O.K. to be racist."
Personally, I think what’s happening here is that Ferraro is seeing Hillary Clinton losing to Obama and it’s reviving her long held anger and bitterness over her own failed campaign. As a result, her verbal filter has slipped and she has revealed herself for the stealth racist she has always been - the type of Democrat who just love, love, loves black people provided they don’t get uppity and remember their place.
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March 12th, 2008 at 1:42 am
I wish I could say this is as sad as it can get, but Hillary Clinton, in her blind ambition to win, and without regard or respect for any sense of fairness, consistency, or honor, and in spite of any real and lasting damage she is inflicting on the Democratic party has condoned some major damage to our Country itself. And now the senseless, hurtful, damaging and polarizing turn in her campaign toward our fellow Americans whose skin color is dark, playing on the deep seated fears of those who do or don’t know any better, this will be a turning point that America will have to make a choice: do we condone this conduct by Clinton and her campaign and continue to vote for her, or do we stop rewarding this behavior by not voting for her? If she is rewarded for this, we will surely see more of it, and I, for one, can’t stomach much more of this type of hateful devicive politics, she is starting to make George Bush look good, this is a very sad day for our country, I hope the message comes thru that most of this great country of America does not think this way, God help us all.