The Wash

I have been standing at the laundromat, quarters in hand waiting for it. And, now it begins. It all comes out in the wash.
Geraldine Ferraro, former New York congresswoman, former vice presidential candidate, and a staunch Hilary Clinton supporter, has played the race card. Apparently, however, she's playing the same old, tired game.

"If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. 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. she teold the Dailiy Breeze of Torrance, California.

There is something about a black man competing on equal, even superior footing that brings out the best in learned whites. Ferraro is not the only one who actually believes that being of color in this still racist country, is an advantage.

This is the same argument, threatened old-boy whites used to defeat any chance of a level playing field offered by Affirmative Action. They are the human resource executives who made sure that the majority of legislated equal opportunity gains went directly to white women. Sure, a few blacks got the scraps. It was, after all, unavoidable.

These are the same people, like Fuzzy Zoeler, who cringe at how much better than anyone Tiger Woods is at 'their' game.