08-14-2020, 11:15 AM
(08-14-2020, 10:25 AM)BmorePat87 Wrote: Just to note, I didn’t say “most marginalized”, so like you said there isn’t a need to compare grievances. The point of it is to show the devaluation of a group for 4 centuries, which is particularly noted in the struggles of Black women to win elected executive positions, so as to show the importance of promoting Black women in American society. The most important factor, though, is the George Floyd protests and the emphasis it has put on elevating black voices.
Hell, just yesterday in the memes thread, someone posted an image of Kamala’s head on what appears to be a prostitute with a tattoo that implied that a former boyfriend had sexually conquered her. This is an incredibly successful, highly educated woman who has served in many high profiles offices being reduced to a sex worker owned by men. It’s pathetic.
No, no need to compare, it's just that I introduced the concept of marginalized hispanic women that under the introduced logic might deserve a similar recognition and you responded with a list of grievances black women have to endure. It's an implied comparison. My stance of maybe better not committing to a candidate's race or gender is largely based on the assumption that these implied comparisons are not the ideal way to look at things in the first place.
I mean, your argument seems to be black women had it worst and the issue of explicit and implicit racism is on top of minds at this moment, so they deserve a black female VP, and while the former might very well be true I still would not see the latter as a necessary consequence.
I am not radical within that thought. I would have found it perfectly fine if Biden had said I need a VP, I found a highly qualified person, that has merits from A to Z and also as a black women has an unique understanding of the grievances blacks and women have to face. I feel that would have been better, very much including for Kamala Harris. It's the early commitment to a black women that kind of "bothered" me. Or at least I have some questions about that approach.
As for the meme, I agree with your perspective on that, I don't see these instances as a particularly compelling reason to pick a black woman for VP. I can't really argue against a different viewpoint on that though.