tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7018073541417646773.post6832510196758331035..comments2024-03-28T18:11:29.865-04:00Comments on UNDERNEWS: Why breaking the glass ceiling doesn’t work betterUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7018073541417646773.post-47412390896254881202016-07-28T10:08:39.256-04:002016-07-28T10:08:39.256-04:00I too have been thinking about the media - even Bi...I too have been thinking about the media - even Bill Maher - saying that Clinton has "broken the glass ceiling."<br /><br />It seems to me that she didn't break it; I would reserve that description for someone who stood on their own and accomplished something against all odds and which was opposed to what was wanted by whatever they were striving against.<br /><br />Seemingly, Obama and Clinton are more like "sparklies" to be set in that glass ceiling, as ornaments or trophies, take your pick. A sparklie was what the crow in <i>The Secret Of NIMH</i> was always looking for - a worthless object although a shiny one that caught his attention.<br /><br />In this case, the "gravity" holding persons of color and women back from that ceiling, the combined corporate interests, <i>installed</i> Obama, who came from nowhere and did not very much to get there, and is doing the same thing with Clinton.<br /><br />Those interests are hoping that the novelty of the candidate's color or sex will overshadow their eventual lack of action*. Hillary is "openly" opportunistic, she just "happens to be" a woman.<br /><br />We already witnessed this inaction through the eight years of the Obama administration, and it will be too late to do anything about it but elect the next novelty come the end of their marking time terms.<br /><br />Why shouldn't every pot smoker's sentence have been commuted on day one, for example? Bad for the prison business, that's why! We are what we do not what we say!<br /><br />In Bernie Sander's speech he listed all the things Clinton "promised" so as to, in Ralph Nader's view, be the better able to hold Clinton accountable during her term.<br /><br />In this I see another sideshow of bickering between members of the same fold to again send a ping through the accomplice media to suggest that the "struggle" is still active - and of course no one branch of government can do it alone.<br /><br />It will be interesting to see what progress thwarting ruse is trotted out if the Senate and House turn democrat with a democrat in the White House, as they were eight years ago. Probably some manufactured crisis or another - no shortage of food for the wrong wolf.<br /><br />Cheers, Tom<br />____________________________________________<br />* George Carlin on Guilty White Liberal Racism<br /><br />There are a couple of terms that are used in connection with minorities, usually by guilty white liberals.<br /><br />First one is "happens to be". He happens to be Black. I have a friend who happens to be Black. Like it's an accident. He had two Black parents? Yes. So where does the surprise part come in? I should think it would be more unusual if he just "happened to be" Scandenavian.<br /><br />And the other term is "openly". He's openly gay. But this is the only minority they use that for. You know you wouldn't say someone is openly Black. Well maybe James Brown. Or Lewis Farakhan! Lewis Farakhan is "openly" Black.<br /><br />Collin Powell is not openly Black. Collin Powell is openly White. He just happens to be Black."Tom Puckettnoreply@blogger.com