Random Thoughts on "Racism"

Posted by zee on Mar 3rd, 2008 in Race Card Politics, White Woman Wonders if She is Racist and If She Cares | 42 comments Back in 2001 I had my political awakening to race-card politics duly blogged under the heading “Is This White Woman Racist and Does She Really Fucking Care”. This was in response to the so-called Cincinnati riots. (Here is the local media’s politically correct distortion of the events, and here is the correct assessment.) As I review those early posts I can trace my journey from someone who had absolutely no issues with any race or ethnicity to my present views on racism. As a pre-teen, I was not a participant in any civil rights movement, wasn’t particularly aware of it, but...

Obama and Hillary: Steeped in the Rhetoric of Oppression

Posted by zee on Feb 18th, 2008 in Uncategorized | 1 comment I never signed up for a course in the “-isms“; Marxism, Socialism and Communism – but researching the ideological underpinnings of the two progressive contenders for the presidency is teaching me more than I ever wanted to know. I will frankly say that I will not vote for any black presidential candidate who chooses to designate himself as an African-American (as opposed to an American). In my mind that hyphen has come to symbolize race card politics, signaling an agenda of divisive grievances, not national unity. And quite frankly, I could never bring myself to vote for a...