When I was going to high school in Northern California, one day I got pulled over by a cop. It was my first time being pulled over, so I was scared and upset to say the least.
The police officer asked me for my license and registration, so I nervously gave him all the paperwork in my car. He studied my license for a while and then looked into my eyes.
"Ohhh, so you live on Raccolio, eh?"
"Yes."
"That's in that new neighborhood over here, eh?"
"Yes."
I'll never forget that for the rest of my life. That was my first encounter with a cop. The way he looked at me, he way he talked to me...I knew all he saw was a rich girl who's parents will pay any ticket she gets.
What a crook.
I felt exploited. Misunderstood. Judged.
It was one of the most terrible feelings possible to feel, because I didn't do anything to deserve that treatment, that judgment and I couldn't say or do anything to change his mind- his mind was made up. He'll take his revenge out on me because I am a rich girl and my rich daddy should help pay the police force's salary because they're bitter from getting paid less than garbage men.
Anyone would feel just as hurt as I felt from that judgment. The cop didn't know who I was or what it was like to be me. He had never been a teenage girl from a well-to-do family, so who is he to judge me and exploit me based on his assumptions?
That was the scenario that played again and again in my mind after I had watched Rev. Michael Pfleger's sermon, mocking Sen. Hillary Clinton.
He made fun of Clinton, wiping his eyes and saying "I'm white! I'm entitled! There's a black man stealing my show!"
When I saw this video on CNN, all hell broke loose. I yelled at my TV so loudly that my cat ran under my bed.
Since when do women feel like they're entitled to anything? Last time I checked (which was recently), a black man will make more money than me in any position in any professional field we both go into. He'd probably be hired over me and be given a promotion over me, too, because more than likely, the boss is a man and he thinks men are more competent than women.
Hillary never went into this presidency thinking "I'm going to beat Barack because I'm white and I deserve this more than him." How DARE a man say that! How DARE an audience laugh at that!
Hillary is ambitious, hard-headed and determined to be president- but so is EVERY person who has ever wanted to be president. She's soooo close to getting the nomination- that's why she's held on so long. She doesn't want to give up easily. If she did, she'd set that tone for all women here on after. It would seem like she didn't get the presidency because she gave up. She has to stay in it so that she seems just as tough as any other man- she must set the precedent for future women. She's doing that because she KNOWS she's not entitled to shit!
The only women who feel like they're entitled to anything, are the 99% fake trophy wives who have more silicone and botox than they do brain cells and all they feel entitled to is a rich husband, big house, fancy car and lots of jewelery.
Call me when you met a woman who literally feels entitled to win the presidency because she's white. I don't need to give you my number, because you won't be calling me any time soon.
Women's status has had such an amazingly slow increase over time, that it's one of the most depressing and disappointing things I could think about.
GENDER STUMPS RACE. Period.
If you're a man who's black, Indian, British, I don't care what, you will be treated differently than women. What differently means, is up to you. You could say that women are treated "better" because men will hold doors open for them, help them carry things or give them free stuff. But isn't that just another way of men proving how helpless and fragile they think women are?
Pfleger made a false accusation against Clinton and therefore offended all women. He has NO right to judge women. All he did was degrade women and downplay our struggle that he knows nothing about.
I don't care if you've been married for 50 years or if you have 5 sisters. Only women know the full force of sexism whether it's through intense chivalry or from being treated as if you're just a piece of meat.
The truth is, we all have struggles. In America, our struggles are supposed to deteriorate as all people are treated as one. And no group's struggles will be subsided until the people start taking all struggles seriously. And when reverends who know they're being watched by the media are unfairly and erroneously judgmental, the step that's being taken is a step backward for equality and a wider barrier in between races.
Leave it up to Obama's reverends to know what to say to get America's blood boiling.
Friday, May 30, 2008
I don't see "entitlement" ... only sexism
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