Is Gender Bias Stronger than Racism in Amerika?

A statement made by a lady trying to explain the apparent fizzling of Hillary Clinton presidential campaign has me puzzled. She said, in effect, that Mrs. Clinton is doing poorly against a black Obama because gender bias is more perverse and stronger in Amerika than racism. I am assuming that this lady is black and her feelings on the issue might be intensified because she has experienced the double whammy of sexism and racism. Otherwise, how else could she have come to that conclusion?

There is no doubt there are people who will not vote for a woman no matter what. Similarly there are people who will never vote for a black wo/man. The numbers of these kinds of people, however, are dwindling with the on-going maturation of the American experiment. Increasingly it seems that, given the right circumstances, the message and the personality begin to carry more weight to the electorate than mere gender or race.

A woman cannot run away from womanhood just because she is aspiring to be the most powerful person of the temporal world. When Mrs. Clinton becomes strident and struts across the podium my balls shrink. When she says she is going to “fight” for me for health insurance I recoil viscerally. This is testosterone at work—it confuses my psyche. Amerika may have seen enough of that from the Texan cowboy.

Obama, on the other hand, talks of motivating people into the political process—even those who had never cared. He says he will talk to the “enemies” of Amerika. He talks of bringing people together to solve problems. These, as somebody puts it, are effeminate nature of cooperation and “let us sing kumbaya” towards a common goal. Amerika is responding, and has nothing to do with gender or race.