CNN readers angry over ‘race or gender’ story
Leave oversimplifying to the
candidates.
Within minutes of posting a story on CNN’s homepage called “Gender or race: Black women voters face tough choices in South Carolina,” readers reacted quickly and angrily.
Many took umbrage at the story’s suggestion that black women voters face “a unique, and most unexpected dilemma” about voting their race or their gender…
The story states: “For these women, a unique, and most unexpected dilemma, presents itself: Should they vote their race, or should they vote their gender?”
An e-mailer named Tiffany responded sarcastically: “Duh, I’m a black woman and here I am at the voting booth. Duh, since I’m illiterate I’ll pull down the lever for someone. Hm… Well, he black so I may vote for him… oh wait she a woman I may vote for her… What Ise gon’ do? Oh lordy!”
Tiffany urged CNN to “pull this racist crap off” the Web site and to stop calling Hillary the “top female candidate.”
“Stop calling Barack the “Black” candidate,” she wrote.
Bravo, Tiffany. I wish we had html for “sarcasm”.
Posted: Tue - January 22, 2008 at 03:36 PM