An Open Letter to the White Right, On the Occasion of Your Recent, Successful Temper Tantrum

[scififreak]

An Open Letter to the White Right, On the Occasion of Your Recent, Successful Temper Tantrum

This gave me chills. CHILLS! If you don't know who Tim Wise is, in a nutshell he's a leading anti-racist educator who doesn't pull any punches or soothe any ruffled feathers. So, depending on who you are, you *might* be offended. But I very much encourage

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[solarwind]

I have to say, I was disappointed that not one minority candidate won for senate this time around. Not one. It was a major whitewash and it's depressing.

And this link:
http://www.thisnation.com/congress-facts.html

Even the news coverage of the election was almost entirely white (and why is it that all of the women have to be blonds? The one exception was Rachel Maddow, and they only showed her for like 5 minutes). And I was watching the more liberal news stations.

So yes, like the letter you linked to, I maintain hope for the future and hope for a minority swing so that our politics better represent our actual cultural make up.

[writerfangirl]

What about Marco Rubio? He's the child of Cuban exiles.

Fox had Juan Williams, who I think is one of the only African American political commentators out there.

[solarwind]

Forgot about Marco Rubio, his race wasn't called when I stopped watching. Good point.

I honestly don't watch Fox and I don't have TV so the coverage I got was what was streaming on NBC. They did have one or two minorities show up during the coverage, but there were large chunks of time that only had old white guys on.

I was in no way saying things haven't gotten better, just that I hope they continue to do so because there is still plenty of progress to be made.

[writerfangirl]

What I know about him I really like him.

In general, Fox has a lot more women on their station than MSNBC or CNN, from what I have seen. None of them really have minorities, though.

I'm actually impressed by the amount of young female commentators on Fox. People like SE Cupp and Mary Katherine Ham, who were born in 79 and 80 respectfully. Do MSNBC or CNN have young, female commentators? I have to say that it is pretty great seeing people who I can relate with in the political arena. Makes me feel a little old (I'm going to be 30 in June), but at the same time, it's still nice to see.

[solarwind]

I will admit that Fox has done well getting women (I wish not quite so many of them were blond however). I don't think the other channels have done as well, but I don't watch any of them very often. The big one I know for MSNBC is Rachel Maddow, but really she just has her own show.

I was happy to see that we were able to increase the number of women in political positions. They did quite well in governor races in particular.

[writerfangirl]

There are women of many hair colors over there. Both women I mentioned aren't blond, for instance. :D And some of the blonds over there do leave the blonde stereotypes.

OH! Here we go: http://www.gogomag.com/talkingheads/misc_political.php All the female political commentators on TV.

Me too! I am very excited about this election. What I especially like about the Tea Party is that it is getting people into the running who wouldn't normally stand a chance and wouldn't be running in the first place. These are the people who do not fit in either party and I like seeing that. I don't fit in either party, either.

[scififreak]

I've decided to join this convo, lol

When we're talking about Fox news I'm especially suspicious when they have young, female commentators because I tend to assume that they are doing it for ratings and appeal, not substance. Like using pretty women for the weather section. I'd be more impressed if they had older women as commentators. To break the sexist, ageist mold. Not to say that there aren't obviously well-qualified young women commentators out there, but it's not that revolutionary to me.

As for your point about the Tea Party bring people in that normally wouldn't run for office or get elected...that's what's scary IMO. People who have no business running a lemonade stand are thrust into super stardom on a platform of crazy, hate, WTF or some combination of all three. I'm not saying that a third party is not a good idea, cause it is, but the Tea Party is not, nor should it, be it.