And while I'm being all political...

[layla]

This guy makes some damn good points about white privilege. Regardless of how I feel about the McCain-Palin and Obama-Biden tickets, and how the media's been treating Sarah Palin (and about Tim Wise as well *cough*) ... if you flip it around and postulate a black candidate with Palin's particular set of qualifications and disadvantages (unwed teenage daughter, shaky collegiate history, gun-toting future son-in-law, strongly religious and belongs to a politically-charged church), and consider how such a candidate would be viewed by the American mainstream -- makes kind of a contrast, doesn't it?

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[laylalawlor.livejournal.com]

A few of those points had occurred to me (particularly with the unwed daughter) but seeing it all laid out like that makes me shudder. And it's not that I think Palin deserves media scrutiny on any of these points, necessarily -- but the double standard is huge and scary.