The headlines are so packed with hilarious things that it’s hard not to comment, particularly on this Ferraro/race thing. She has caused a firestorm with her comments on Obama: “If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. 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.”
Whether that is true or not--and presumably it was votes and not the Department of Human Services that has brought him within reach of the nomination--she has just identified a major problem with affirmative action laws: they tend to discredit the accomplishments of the very people they are intended to help. I’m just supposing that Ferraro is a backer of those programs.
What what strikes me most is how she bristled at being told that she can’t say that: “Every time that campaign is upset about something, they call it racist,” she said. “I will not be discriminated against because I’m white. If they think they’re going to shut up Geraldine Ferraro with that kind of stuff, they don’t know me.”
Doesn’t she know that shutting people up is an integral part of all this legislation that purports to centrally plan demographics and control all forms of human association? Moreover, controlling thoughts is the very essence of anti-discrimination law.
