Reply #33: Perhaps White Men, But White Women? Maybe Not [View All]

[mntleo2]

...white women are more liberal than white men, especially when they vote. This is because white women often experience discrimination, albeit a different kind than blacks do ~ but it is in an important category because it is in the workplace. Hit us in the pocketbook, and yeah we can relate to African American's endless struggle for equality since we are breadwinners too. White women make $.70 on each dollar a white man makes. The gap is even bigger for people of color. Still it is galling to know you are working right next to someone making 30% more than you ~ and when you go home you have another job waiting for you as well taking care of the kids as women put in on the average 12 hours more on household chores than men. White women may not get followed around by the store detective, and she may be allowed to cash a check easier, but for the most part we have been the "n" word in the workplace as well as at home.


Barak Obama is articulate, earthy, he is "safe" (meaning you know he would always be a gentleman) and he gets it about women's struggle as well as struggles for people of color. If people of color got out and voted along with white women, he would would be a threat to the white Good Old Boy's network, big time!

My 2 cents

Cat In Seattle