A rant a day keeps les pissants at bay

Hillary at Wellesley

This morning, on the front page of the New York Times, there was an article – part of the on-going series called The Long Run which features in random rotation, aspects of a current candidate in the Primaries – entitled: Clinton’s Gradual Education on Issues of Race. I knew as soon as I saw that title that somethings was not right about it. I got that, you know, creepy feeling that yet another journalist was having a ‘bad spirit’ day and had decided to take it out on Hillary. I was most pleased to see that the article had not made the ‘Most emailed today’ list of articles. I scanned it just to confirm that it was, indeed, documenting every recorded incident of HRC’s ‘racial ignorance’ from birth, then I went on to things that mattered. 

Then a friend wrote me, asking if I had seen it and expressing dismay about its existence. Then I went OFF:

 The TITLE alone gives away this piss-ant of an attitude-ridden article…I mean, what great deep dark secret revelations do they think they’re presenting? This was my upbringing too. So-the-hell-what!! The 1992 Clinton campaign staff, probably their present staff (in the background, as they should be), their personal friends, and on and on demonstrate where she’s at, in the present, on ‘race’ and ‘diversity’ — damn — she’s WAY beyond these superficial divisions, she’s deep into the crap that undermines our having a sane and evolving society.

The SC vote WAS a race vote, which simply means that the Black folks voted for Obama because he was Black, not because they thought he’d make the best president. (I think both Clintons get into trouble with quotes like that sometimes just because they assume the people have also put in some “thoughtful analysis” time and–they haven’t! They’ve been watching the Super-Fucking-Bowl, sports culture, the way we do it, turns brains to jello over time  -  pablum of the U.S. masses.) Anyway, that kind of –as you say– ‘gut voting’  isn’t, ironically, going to advance any oppressed group. Hill’s constituents, the ones who are going to get her into office, come from all ‘categories’ of people. For instance, I love the men who are all about getting Hill in office, who say they are psyched to call her “my President”–their enthusiasm just slays me…

Now? I feel better. More relaxed. Lighter. I had a great afternoon and am having an excellent evening. My burden is lifted.

~  RANT ON ~