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Shame on you, Geraldine Ferarro.

By Gina-Louise from Northampton, MA - Mar 11th, 2008 at 4:43 pm EDT

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Oops. Did I plagiarize, Mrs. Clinton?

While we were all agog about Eliot Spitzer, news broke that Geraldine Ferarro made a ludicrous and extremely offensive statement to the Daily Breeze.

"I'm on Hillary's finance committee. I've done a fundraiser for her here at my firm. And I went and worked the phone banks before Super Tuesday. I have to tell you, this is a very emotional campaign for me," Ferraro said.
When the subject turned to Obama, Clinton's rival for the Democratic Party nomination, Ferraro's comments took on a decidedly bitter edge.
"I think what America feels about a woman becoming president takes a very secondary place to Obama's campaign - to a kind of campaign that it would be hard for anyone to run against," she said. "For one thing, you have the press, which has been uniquely hard on her. It's been a very sexist media. Some just don't like her. The others have gotten caught up in the Obama campaign.
"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."

Right. Because Black men hold such a privileged place in this country. So privileged, according to Ms. Ferarro, that they rank above White men in the advantages they enjoy in the United States.

Allow me to school you for a moment, Ms. Ferarro.

African American men, while only 13% of the population, comprise 49% of the prison population.
Due to this, and discriminatory disenfranchisement felony laws, 13% of African American men who are free cannot vote.
African American men's incomes have declined over the past 30 years.
50% African American men in their 20's were jobless in 2004.
African American men are less likely to go to college, and if they do have only a 35% graduation rate
In 2006, the poverty rate for African Americans was 24.3%, double the national average.
African American men have the worst health and the highest death rate of all races/ethnicities and both genders.
African Americans received the largest percentage of subprime loans, and will suffer the most foreclosures and loss of wealth due to the unscrupulous loans.

So you explain to me how it is that you think it is extremely easy for a Black man to become President of the United States, Ms. Ferarro.

Geraldine Ferarro, you should be ashamed of yourself. I understand that it might be hard for you to see the inequality from way up high on your post as principal to the Lobbying firm Blank Rome Government Relations LLS, and on the Board of Goodrich Petroleum, but it is there.

And Hillary Clinton, you're not off the hook. I call on you to "Reject and Denounce" this offensive, and factually insane statement.

[Originally posted on http://www.knittingliberally.com/?q=node/59]

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By JazzmanEast Mar 11th 2008 at 4:51 pm EDT

Write on, Gina-Louise.

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By Mark Mar 15th 2008 at 9:10 am EDT

Hey ferarro you need some ice for that burn?

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