Dear Geraldine…
This is not an attack.

This is a response.

I woke up at 4 o’clock in the morning thinking about you, Geraldine.

I lay there listening to my sorta-beagles snore and wondered if you really think that Senator Obama is still in this race solely because he is a black man.

I don’t know you, Geraldine, and I don’t assume a person is decent simply because they hold a certain status in the Democratic Party and feminist history. This bitch has never met you, but I sure as shit know what it is like to have someone attribute my success to my being black.

It’s the freakiest mind fuck out there to have someone treat what has been the source of oppression like it is the “it” benefit of 2008.

But you know that, don’t you…Geraldine?

And it is a sadly powerful attack that dismisses all the hard work; the years spent biting your tongue, the ass whoopings you chose to hold back and the cussing outs that never happened even though not telling someone about themselves almost caused you physical pain.

Blink.

Pause…sip water…continue.

“If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position,” Ferraro said. “And if he was a woman (of any color) he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is. And the country is caught up in the concept.”

Which I translate to mean that you, Geraldine, think Alan Keyes just had bad timing.

Yeah.

Right.

Let’s get real, Geraldine. You don’t give a flying shit whether you offend the hell out of some people as long as your message gets through to the right people. The kind of people who hear a quote like that and are thankful that someone said it…fucking cheer when they hear it then eagerly e-mail it to five friends…and can’t believe you’re catching hell for it.

Those people…

…who you need to fire up and are confident the tried and true fuel of ‘gender trumps race’ will get it done and bring in some money.

This trifling ass shit has left me unable to imagine a scenario where I cast the vote people risked their lives and died to achieve for me for a candidate who’s campaign insults what I stand for and the principles I believe in.

Hey thanks.

This has been so fucking not nice.

And next time don’t bother with the “and if he was a woman (of any color)” pander, okay?

I haven’t been caught up in that unified sisterhood concept yet, honey…and your verbal malfunction didn’t help with that shit one bit.

I’m not attacking you because you are white.

This is coming at you because you’re wrong…

But we’ll see.

I know you exist, and was getting soooo frustrated with the whole “Latins only vote for Clinton” talk. Obviously, mainstream media does not understand that one can be of a multitude of racial backgrounds – and still be Latin. How this has been overlooked is beyond me. :-/

Re: Olberman – BRAVO!!! I’ve watched his show a few times in the past week, and he definitely does not bite his tongue. Thank goodness! He had words regarding HRC’s praise of John McCain as well, questioning her “strategy.”

T