Making History

I am listening to a very skilled speaker. He just won the Democratic primaries in the US.

From the beginning I didn’t much care whether it became Clinton or Obama. As a feminist I would’ve loved to see Clinton in the Oval Office, and as an ally to people of colour I will love to see Obama there. Either choice would be progressve and bring me hope for the future. If it had been Clinton, in spite of all the sexism and misogyny she’s faced, I would be happy and know, that there’d also be a good chance, that a person of colour could do the same in the future. Now it’s Obama, in spite of all the racism he’s faced, and it lets me know that there’s a good chance a woman of any colour can do the same in the future.

The closeness of their race showed me that it could have been either one of them, and the fact that Obama got the nomination doesn’t prove that misogyny is alive and well at all. Misogyny proves its existence very well all by itself. Obamas nomination proves that in spite of blatant racism, there are still so many people who are NOT racists, that a black man could win. And the close race proves that in spite of misogyny there are still so many people who are NOT sexist, that a woman could stay in the race to the very end (even if she didn’t win).

I am so very happy that it was so close between them, because no one can say Clinton lost because she was female. And had it been the other way around Obama wouldn’t have lost because of the colour of his skin. The were too close for there to really be a difference.

I congratulate the US Dems for electing a nominee, who will do an awesome job, I’m sure, with a presidential campaign, and if elected (and duh, I’m rooting for him) will do and awesome job in the White House, nationally as well as internatinally.

And just listen to the man. Hear him speak. That man can give a speech like few others.

Via.