Maggie's Farm

Of talk and gender, race and affectation.

Obama comes off as a good black momma’s boy: http://apnews.myway.com/image/20070421/Campaign_2008_Sharpton.sff_NYFF104_20070421140222.html?date=20070421&docid=D8OL7H4G0

Edwards as a pretty white boy: http://cache.wonkette.com/politics/edwardscompact.jpg/edwardscompact.jpg

and Hillary as a powersuit-wearing tomboy, whether acting black or trending blonde: http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols2/hil.kiss.suha.jpg


No one dare call Al Sharpton a boy in any sense, ‘cause he the man... http://www.glennbeck.com/news/07-09-02-jacko.jpg

Note re Obama: Obama’s mama’s white but her sensibilities clearly ethnic. “Obama recalls in his 1995 autobiography, Dreams From My Father, how his mother fed him a steady diet of idealized black images during his years in Indonesia: 'She would come home with books on the civil rights movement, the recordings of Mahalia Jackson, the speeches of Dr. King'."

http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:JhR5aHz5e_wJ:www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml%3Fi%3D20040531%26s%3Dscheiber053104&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=us

Which is fine as far as it goes, but is still race and chosen race conscious.

Hillary just can't get away with same so well.