She told a FOX News interviewer: "I got up and the question was asked, 'Why do you think Barack Obama is in the place he is today" as the party's delegate frontrunner.
"I said in large measure, because he is black. I said, Let me also say in 1984 - and if I have said it once, I have said it 20, 60, 100 times - in 1984, if my name was Gerard Ferraro instead of Geraldine Ferraro, I would never have been the nominee for vice president," she said.
Just because the subject matter is positive does not mean classifying sucess based on race is an okay thing.
Perhaps our society is not progressing as fast as we thought.
politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com
(visit the link for the full news article)
*Edit:
Hopefully a mod will edit the title for me. It's supposed to say "not racist".
[edit on 12-3-2008 by Sublime620]
[edit on 12-3-2008 by Sublime620]




