tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20435429.post3135281731304472481..comments2023-10-20T08:03:50.579-05:00Comments on Blogging While Feminist: The speech.Plain(s)feministhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15056404699624958898noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20435429.post-71080312004628905262008-03-21T10:49:00.000-05:002008-03-21T10:49:00.000-05:00I have to say, I think he made the best lemonade h...I have to say, I think he made the best lemonade he could out of that big sack of lemons. And I'd love to hear many other (white!)preachers get called to account for their sermons the way Wright was--let's hear more about John Hagee, for instance.<BR/><BR/>I kept thinking of my kid brother in all this. My father passed when he was only a month old; my brother keeps a picture of him on his mirror, sort of to compare and contrast, and he looked at every man with the questions, "Is this what being a man is like? Will I be good at it?" I suppose that what Obama had to deal with is something like that, only with lots of extra layers because he was black in a white family. He had to ask, "Is this what being a *black* man is like?" He needed his elders.<BR/><BR/>I think also of the shock I felt when I read a T-shirt on a black man: "No, white lady, I don't want your purse." I thought at first that I didn't think that. Then I realized that other white ladies had. Then I realized how stiff my posture was and how tightly I held my purse to myself...<BR/><BR/>I think, if nothing else, that Obama's candidacy is helping America to think seriously about race for the first time in decades, and that is a wonderful thing.CrackerLilohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18176388186521154104noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20435429.post-49830897734424862202008-03-19T11:28:00.000-05:002008-03-19T11:28:00.000-05:00Awesome post! I hope others heard his speech the ...Awesome post! <BR/><BR/>I hope others heard his speech the way you did, PF. :)Daisyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16354486841414802245noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20435429.post-81873485880076490702008-03-19T07:21:00.000-05:002008-03-19T07:21:00.000-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20435429.post-87695271147803839622008-03-19T07:15:00.000-05:002008-03-19T07:15:00.000-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com