I like the sentiment, but is it bad that I keep wondering: 'so why is she focused of the effects on just her son, if she has daughters as well. shouldn't this mean just as much to them, as it does to the boy?' Especially since the '08 election also had two female candidates to look up to. (well one, but technically Palin was there as well, as despicable as she might be)
Especially given some of Hilary's - and her supporters' - frankly deplorable actions during the 2008 primaries (which, btw, pushed me into no longer considering myself a capital-f "Feminist" because all the white privilege that came screaming to the fore), no. They were not people that any mother of black girls should have pointed to as role models. I'm sorry, but no.
And black boys and men get saddled and hit with a lot of baggage that black women and girls, especially light-skinned women and girls, don't get. Black boys are more likely to be labeled as "troublemakers" and placed in lower-level classes than any other group. Obama, and what he meant to black folks and especially black kids of BOTH genders, is something I don't think you're seeing.
What did Rodham-Clinton do that was deplorable? I'm not being sarcastic at all, I didn't pay much attention to either Obama or Rodham-Clinton's primary movements, because I didn't support either's policies so I actually don't know the history there. I've seen it mentioned a few times, and I think it's important that I know.
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Especially given some of Hilary's - and her supporters' - frankly deplorable actions during the 2008 primaries (which, btw, pushed me into no longer considering myself a capital-f "Feminist" because all the white privilege that came screaming to the fore), no. They were not people that any mother of black girls should have pointed to as role models. I'm sorry, but no.
And black boys and men get saddled and hit with a lot of baggage that black women and girls, especially light-skinned women and girls, don't get. Black boys are more likely to be labeled as "troublemakers" and placed in lower-level classes than any other group. Obama, and what he meant to black folks and especially black kids of BOTH genders, is something I don't think you're seeing.
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