Why ALL women must vote for Obama

Dear friends,

Considering John McCain's "clever" choice of Sarah Palin as his running mate, in his bid for the presidency, I thought that it is a good idea to re-publish a post that appeared on this blog back in June. The author of the piece that is linked below, Jill Porter, is a highly relevant and influential Philadelphia journalist who is also a longtime friend of mine. She admits to having been a Hillary Clinton supporter, but insists that Senator Obama deserves the support of all women...

In any case, while I have issues with the context of the, albeit unwitting, but, nonetheless, alienating and offensive tone of Jill's use of the word "women", because of its historical European American denial of the existence of African American and all other non-European American women, I know that her intent, because of her wonderful character and personality, is to embrace all of her sisters, regardless of their skin complexions. We will need lots of women like her, in order to continue moving our society forward.

Women make up half of our society's/world's population, and, therefore, have half of our society's/humanity's wisdom and strength (both inner and outer). Considering this, I have said, for decades, when dealing with the issue of gender inequality: We as men must cease being fools. After all, only a fool walks out of his door with half his brain. (pun intended). More importantly, at least to me, it is time that we as men swallow the "big pill" that is sexist oppression and exploitation.

One Love,
G. Djata Bumpus

Jill Porter: Why Hillary backers must vote for Obama Philadelphia Daily News 06/06/2008*