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Race and Sex
Dahlia, regarding your response to Emily B's question about why younger women aren't more excited about Hillary. Couldn't the same point be made about black achievement? That is, younger people have grown up in a world where it's no big deal that the mayor is black, or corporate executives are black, or the secretary of state is black. I don't think young women are turning to Obama because they've said, "It will mean more to have the first black president than the first female president." I think they are simply responding to two people and the response is,"He makes me feel excited about what a president could be. She doesn't." Isn't that the way it should be -- that we are deciding about them as individuals and not heavy symbols of race or gender? Sure, their race and gender are there for all to see, but I've been grateful that in this campaign both Obama and Hillary have only rarely made it an explicit issue.
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