Reply #100: The analogy is not "If you don't believe in the right to choose, then you are not a white woman." [View All]

[No Elephants]

That makes no sense. White women are not a group for which the right to choose is more significant than it is for women of color. The better statement for comparison would be, "Any woman who votes against a woman's right to choose, then you are not a real woman."

I'm not saying the latter is (or is not) a wonderful statement, either. IMO, men should also be for the right to choose. I'm saying only that it's mnore comparable to Jackson's statement.

Underlying what Jackson is saying is that there is a historical and a statistical correlation in this country between and among poverty and African Americans and poor health care (not only because of poverty, either), all of which is very familiar to most African Americans. So, if you vote against health care, you are not a real black person. You don't get it.

Now, the first statement could be considered sexist. However, women do have a more personal knowledge and a more direct experience with wombs and pregancy than do men. And African Americans do have a more personal and more direct knowledge and experience of what health care for African Americans really has meant and still means in this country.