In an open letter to the National Organization of Women the Green Party’s Women’s Caucus calls on NOW to support the McKinney/Clemente ticket. In part the letter says
Cynthia McKinney has been a steadfast supporter of full reproductive rights for women throughout her legislative career, including opposition to ‘abstinence only’ sex education, funding for contraception and UN family planning. Rosa Clemente has been an outspoken advocate on issues affecting people of color, particularly women, and has directed her campaign toward the 48% of young people who don’t vote, to encourage participation in the electoral process.
One thing I don’t get is the double standard around “people of color” – McKinney and Clemente seem to drag that line into every speech and press release they make, and appear to have a strong notion of treating “people of color” differently than those of us that are less “colorful”… Yet nobody calls them for racism on account of it?
Just as a hypothetical, what would the response be to “Joe Candidate, white guy running for {office}” – making no further comment than that, and not being associated w/ any known racist groups… I kind of suspect that he would be blasted nine ways from Sunday for his “Blatant Racism”…
Anybody else think this seems a bit hypocritical? (I think there are more important things to judge a person on than race, and always answer questions of that sort with either “Native American”, since I’m not an immigrant, or “Other – Human”, since I’m not an aboriginal American)
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