text: Womanist Musings: Cynthia McKinney- The Fallback Choice
  This is not something new. In fact, the debate over black rights and women's rights (white as a norm) goes back a hundred plus years. Such prominent advocates for the right of the women to vote as Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Stanton denied the same right to the black man. This could come as a surprise since a lot of the women who were engaged in the women's' rights movement also participated in the abolitionist movement. It was, nonetheless, unacceptable to those women that black men (and immigrants) should have the right to vote before they do (the middle to upper class white women). So, they denied the rights granted to blacks in the 14 and 15th amendments to the Constitution.
  I also find it interesting that you do not want to be affiliated with the feminist movement. It is interesting to me as a political science major because that is the trend that has surfaced quite recently in that movement. Recently two types of feminism have been identified by Karen Offen of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender. She defined two types of feminism, as well as a definition of it. I think that you will find the following article to be very interesting and helpful. http://www.worc.ac.uk/CHIC/suffrage/document/offena.htm
  If they truly view McKinney as a woman, where was the outrage when these images appeared?
  As I recall, there was plenty of outrage across the blogosphere. The Democratic "leadership" on the other hand hid its collective head in the sand, as always. One reason I'm not a Dem any more. She was treated despicably by the media, leadership and the voters in her district.
  Though we are all heavily invested in the blogosphere the world is larger than that. My point is that what happened to her should have screamed from the highest tower and it was not.
  McKinney is a very excellent first choice in my opinion. Thanks for your article.
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  [shrug] Some of us were planning to vote McKinney all along. Personally I am White, but stopped considering myself a Democrat ages ago.
  Sometimes people do the right thing for the wrong reasons. I would have been much happier to see feminists supporting McKinney from the get-go, both for the issues you cite and because Clinton II was a poor poster child for any hue of feminism in any case. But at this point, I'm happy to see that there are cracks in the glue that has bound mainstream/White feminism to the DP for wayyyy the hell too long. This subordination of women's rights to the desire of the DP to protect and grow its own power needs to end. This is true of other social movements exploited by the dp, too, of course.
  Renee, I am a long-time fan of McKinney and have written about her in many different venues over years now. I found the images you've published here a long time ago, shortly after her despicable arrest, and I thought to blog about them, but I couldn't bring myself to post those images to my blog. I thought about it later, too, when I posted sexist images from the early presidential campaigns, but again I couldn't bring myself to post them. I did post some misogynist images of Condoleeza Rice which were also so offensive, but not nearly so offensive as those you've posted.
  I've never been a Democrat, never voted Democrat, never supported a Democratic candidate nor identified as a Democrat. I don't relate to the mainstream and never have, another topic for another day. I just wanted to say some of us certainly did pick up on these hideous images, and your point about McKinney's candidacy is well taken.
  vadim, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton stood for universal suffrage -- suffrage for all people, men and women. It was entirely acceptable to them for black men to have the vote, not only acceptable, they dedicated themselves to that goal, but they wanted the vote for ALL, black women and white women as well.
  Stanton and Cady certainly had no power to "den(y) the rights granted to blacks in the 14 and 15th amendments to the Constitution." In fact, black men were legally enfranchised over 50 years before any women were, including Stanton and Cady, who remained disenfranchised and denied the rights of citizenship until their deaths.