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Coexist

(26,202 posts)
Tue Oct 15, 2024, 05:03 PM Oct 15

To Charlemagne tha God - I'm a white woman, and my finger has been waggin!

Red, Wine, and Blue is ALL about suburban women finger-wagging at their peers.

We're trying! But you're right, white women in positions of influence and power need to call white women out.

You were very right to call that out and push back when there was no good answer.

We're sorry, we're trying!

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To Charlemagne tha God - I'm a white woman, and my finger has been waggin! (Original Post) Coexist Oct 15 OP
You might not like this... WarGamer Oct 15 #1
I would probably agree with you under normal circumstances senseandsensibility Oct 15 #3
ok I see... thx for the context. WarGamer Oct 15 #4
Yes, that is the context Charlemagne was interviewing Harris and asked when others were gonna do what Obama did Coexist Oct 15 #5
I thought that was a great point. Her surrogates would be wise... OneGrassRoot Oct 15 #2

WarGamer

(15,705 posts)
1. You might not like this...
Tue Oct 15, 2024, 05:12 PM
Oct 15

I think this whole divisive... (insert color) people need to wise up/shut up/do whatever is wrong

In fact I'll go further... I think people who do the finger wagging in this case are jerks.

Every group has people who are nice, who are assholes, racists, misogynists and like split pea soup.

I'm a white guy... no one needs to finger wag at me.

I do the right thing... I share opinions when asked.

senseandsensibility

(20,392 posts)
3. I would probably agree with you under normal circumstances
Tue Oct 15, 2024, 05:54 PM
Oct 15

but these are not normal circumstances. I think the "white woman" thing is being raised because there has been so much coverage of black men not supporting Harris enough. But in reality the number of black men hesitating to support Harris is dwarfed by the numbers of white women doing so. So black men feel like they are being targeted for blame while white women skate by with no criticism. It's impossible to have this kind of nuanced conversation without mentioning race, unfortunately.

Coexist

(26,202 posts)
5. Yes, that is the context Charlemagne was interviewing Harris and asked when others were gonna do what Obama did
Tue Oct 15, 2024, 07:08 PM
Oct 15

OneGrassRoot

(23,443 posts)
2. I thought that was a great point. Her surrogates would be wise...
Tue Oct 15, 2024, 05:49 PM
Oct 15

to speak to the demographic they represent. He's absolutely right about that and it feeling unfair that Obama chastised Black men but the other demographics aren't spoken to that way.

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