Perhaps the proper question, also asked in the article, is "... is the country more racist or more sexist?" But that's probably just the pessimist in me. As the article notes:
Today, they may have reasons to be optimistic. Poll numbers for Clinton and Obama are among the strongest of any presidential hopefuls. It now seems nearly as common for political leaders in television shows and movies to be women or racial minorities as white men. Recent polls have found that the percentages of Americans who say they would not vote for a hypothetical black or female presidential candidate, long formidable, have dwindled into the single digits.I have my doubts, fueled by scientifically sound anecdotal evidence. Disturbingly, I've had Democrat friends tell me that they will vote Republican before they vote for a woman for president. No one has had the balls to tell me that they'd never vote for a person of color.
Any thoughts from the collective Salto-brain? Will our next president be a woman or a person of color? Or is this milestone still a decade away? Which will happen first? And are openly sexist Democrats hypocritical pigs, or hypocritical assholes?
[via Racialicious]
