{"id":85,"date":"2008-01-22T14:48:34","date_gmt":"2008-01-22T18:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=85"},"modified":"2008-01-22T16:23:19","modified_gmt":"2008-01-22T20:23:19","slug":"cnn-reader-respond-to-race-and-gender-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=85","title":{"rendered":"CNN Readers Respond to ‘Race and Gender’ Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

And they’re not happy with it<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Readers want media to focus more on the candidates and how they feel about the issues not their gender or race.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

CNN received dozens of e-mails shortly after posting the story, which focuses largely on conversations about Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama that a CNN reporter observed at a hair salon in South Carolina whose customers are predominantly African-American.<\/p>\n

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?” Read the story<\/p>\n

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!”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Frankly, it’s very heartening to hear this, after the news reports that the African-American women at Atlanta’s Spelman College were seriously fretting over this very question<\/a>. Possibly, maybe, hopefully, this is the beginning of the end for identity politics.<\/p>\n

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And they’re not happy with it. 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. Readers want media to focus more on the candidates and how they feel about the issues not their gender or race. Many […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,9,26,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-doug","category-politics","category-race-issues"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t