I just saw Shaker Renee of Womanist Musings quoted by Rick Sanchez on CNN!
It's pretty much the dumbest segment of all time: What if Obama were white and McCain were black?
Yeesh. As if John McCain and Barack Obama wouldn't be totally different people if they were different races than they are (not because of intrinsic differences between races, but because of a socialization inextricably linked to institutionalized racism and race-based privilege, from which no one can escape). It's a truly idiotic hypothetical.
Anyway, they were soliciting comments, and Renee's comment came up. She said that McCain never would have been the Republican nominee if he were black, for a start. Ha. Too true.
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