Dear Hillary Clinton.
May. 8th, 2008 07:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
unusualmusic_lj_archive1. There are working class minorities.
2. There are hard-working working class minorities.
3. There are American hard-working class minorities.
4. The majority of the American working class minority population are hard-working.
Now, I can understand the perspective of an HRC supporter. She’s worked hard. She’s come back from adversity time and time again. She has good policy. She is composed in the face of direct and blatant attacks on her womanhood, character, and appearance since 1992.
And for some people, they can see a lot of themselves in Hillary. They can see themselves striving for what some would say impossible. They cheerfully say “Pick Flick” referring to the movie Election, able to relate to working hard to have some one swoop in from the shadows and take it from you. For many women, Hillary is the hope they have in smashing the ultimate glass ceiling.
Fine. More power to you. If you want to support HRC, go ahead. As I mentioned in the last post, if you’re going to be a supporter represent.
But here’s where I’m coming from.
Young, black, female voter. Grew up poor, not dirt poor, but below the poverty line for 16 out of the first twenty years. I don’t need to play at poverty, I remember it well. I’ve been in the workforce since the age of twelve, illegally, age fourteen, legally, and working full time at age seventeen. And while many women have stories about how they were dealt with differently because of their gender, that was not one of my struggles.
I dealt with discrimination based on my blackness and based on my age. Being the youngest person in your office means that people look at your age first and your lack of experience rather than the results you produce. I thought this would get better the more I worked and the harder I worked, but that is not the case. I’ve had situations where I have met and exceeded every performance goal and not received a full raise. When pressed for an answer as to why I was not awarded the full amount, the responses always mentioned that “everyone has room for improvement” and included some kind of crack about happy hour being cheap at my age or how I didn’t have to pay for daycare or anything.
In short, Ms.-born-into-the-middle-class-and-never-seen-anything-else-than-opulence-since-your-husband-won-the-Presidency,SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!
UPDATE:This is what she said.
Ms. Clinton claims that: "I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on," she said in an interview with USA TODAY. As evidence, Clinton cited an Associated Press article "that found how Sen. Obama's support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me."
And as the diary point out, she is citing an out-of-date AP-Yahoo poll done in May 3rd. And what happened in NC and Indiana confounded most polls, as teh chart at the link shows.
More polling breakdown of which demographics voted for Obama
2. There are hard-working working class minorities.
3. There are American hard-working class minorities.
4. The majority of the American working class minority population are hard-working.
Now, I can understand the perspective of an HRC supporter. She’s worked hard. She’s come back from adversity time and time again. She has good policy. She is composed in the face of direct and blatant attacks on her womanhood, character, and appearance since 1992.
And for some people, they can see a lot of themselves in Hillary. They can see themselves striving for what some would say impossible. They cheerfully say “Pick Flick” referring to the movie Election, able to relate to working hard to have some one swoop in from the shadows and take it from you. For many women, Hillary is the hope they have in smashing the ultimate glass ceiling.
Fine. More power to you. If you want to support HRC, go ahead. As I mentioned in the last post, if you’re going to be a supporter represent.
But here’s where I’m coming from.
Young, black, female voter. Grew up poor, not dirt poor, but below the poverty line for 16 out of the first twenty years. I don’t need to play at poverty, I remember it well. I’ve been in the workforce since the age of twelve, illegally, age fourteen, legally, and working full time at age seventeen. And while many women have stories about how they were dealt with differently because of their gender, that was not one of my struggles.
I dealt with discrimination based on my blackness and based on my age. Being the youngest person in your office means that people look at your age first and your lack of experience rather than the results you produce. I thought this would get better the more I worked and the harder I worked, but that is not the case. I’ve had situations where I have met and exceeded every performance goal and not received a full raise. When pressed for an answer as to why I was not awarded the full amount, the responses always mentioned that “everyone has room for improvement” and included some kind of crack about happy hour being cheap at my age or how I didn’t have to pay for daycare or anything.
In short, Ms.-born-into-the-middle-class-and-never-seen-anything-else-than-opulence-since-your-husband-won-the-Presidency,SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!
UPDATE:This is what she said.
Ms. Clinton claims that: "I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on," she said in an interview with USA TODAY. As evidence, Clinton cited an Associated Press article "that found how Sen. Obama's support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me."
And as the diary point out, she is citing an out-of-date AP-Yahoo poll done in May 3rd. And what happened in NC and Indiana confounded most polls, as teh chart at the link shows.
More polling breakdown of which demographics voted for Obama
