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  • Hitch On Helms like White on Rice

    Gee Hitchens, why don't you and the Queen of England tell us how you really felt about that North Carolinian champion Senator Jesse Helms? I did not know him very well, living in the Midwest among Chicago Democrats and Suburban ''Collar County'' Repubs early in life, and then moving to New England, where both the Democrats and the Republicans have ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by MichaelBernard1 on July 7, 2008

  • Lead With Bevel's Heroism...

    and drop halfway down to the dirty details. This is repugnant journalistic behavior. There is no amount of apology, lauditory comments or hero worship that makes up for his incest - NONE! And for the details to wait until AFTER the praise for Bevel's civil rights work is one more symptom of how men behave when it comes to sexual abuse and ...
    Posted to Chatterbox by mabelle55 on April 11, 2008

  • Re: Racism is not the only form of discrimination!!!

    As a woman who graduated from college in the '50s, I would not compare my status to that of African-Americans during slavery or Jim Crow. But I do bristle a bit when Michelle Obama or Barack, for that matter, or Inquisitor make light of the limitations on women of that era. Michelle Obama was able to graduate from Princeton, a university which in ...
    Posted to Chatterbox by alou on March 26, 2008

  • 74 Percent

    This is what women earn, compared to men. And it's worse for Black women, Hispanic women and Asian women. And try living on Social Security or a pension that is paid out based on how much you earn in your lifetime. Or try caring not only for children, but aging and ill parents, as well on earnings that are just 74% of men's wages. And try being ...
    Posted to Politics by mabelle55 on March 24, 2008

  • Why Hillary (not Gloria)....a Young(er) Woman's Perspective

    In recent days a steady stream of women have celebrated and lauded Gloria Steinem's recent piece in the NYT. Many encourage others to circulate the piece further. Respectfully, I disagree. Ms. Steinem's piece, though well intentioned I'm sure, pits the women's movement against the civil rights movement. Such false competition is divisive, ...
    Posted to Chatterbox by batnib on January 17, 2008

  • A Young(er) Woman's Perspective....Why Hillary (not Gloria)

    In recent days a steady stream of women have celebrated and lauded Gloria Steinem's recent piece in the NYT. Many encourage others to circulate the piece further. Respectfully, I disagree. Ms. Steinem's piece, though well intentioned I'm sure, pits the women's movement against the civil rights movement. Such false competition is divisive, ...
    Posted to Politics by batnib on January 16, 2008