Does gender trump race?
July 11, 2007
Shirley Chisholm is a hero to many because she was the first Black woman to run for president. This was a tremendous act for women and Black people in this country.
In what I think is her most interesting quote, she said the following:
“I’ve always met more discrimination being a woman than being black,” she told The Associated Press in December 1982, shortly before she left Washington to teach at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts. “When I ran for the Congress, when I ran for president, I met more discrimination as a woman than for being black. Men are men.
I’m interested what people think here. Is society more sexist than racist, as Chisholm suggests?
With a white woman (Hillary Clinton) and and a Black man (Barack Obama) both having a great chance at being the next president, this election season could potentially bring such a question to the forefront, for better of for worse.
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I agree with the suggestion by Congresswoman Chisholm that society is more sexist than racist, however, I think that race trumps sex. That is to say, in a society that is inherently patriarchic, inherently male dominanted, inherently oppressive towards women, why does a white woman still have more opportunities than a black man? Affirmative action, equal opportunity comissions, etc. all helped white women first.