Dear Lord!
I saw the Oprah speech. It was discussed with my girlfriends (majority WOC). We thought it was excellent and then very tongue in cheek teased about her becoming President. We collectively would prefer Michelle Obama.
Please be very clear about this. The reason that Oprah can even be considered in this arena is because white people took the serious job of electing a President and made a mockery of it.
Last I checked black women’s voting record as a demographic is pretty impeccable.
There no longer exist a bar that people need to exceed to be President.
“No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident ...”
Last I checked Oprah is over 35, she was born here and she has been a resident for fourteen years.
What particularly irritates me is this pre-primary hysteria is the countless, breathless diaries written already tearing down Oprah.
1. I must have missed Oprah announcing she was running.
2. We have primaries to sort out who is qualified or not. Oprah would have to go through the same primary process as every other candidate.
3. This isn’t the first potential black candidate to be kneecapped prior to any official announcement. We saw Kamala Harris subject to this same type of bullshit on Twitter.
And finally: Where the fuck are all the diaries about all the WHITE MALE BILLIONAIRES that have been sticking their toes in the water.
Where is the Zuckerburg, Cuban, Bloomberg, The Rock, Howard Schultz...HE IS NOT QUALIFIED DIARY?
We continue in this country to force women and particularly women of color to be twice as qualified as any white male candidate.
You don’t have to vote for Oprah. The 2020 Democratic field is going to be very, very crowded. It’s going to be a tough slough for whoever wins the nomination.
However if you are tempted to write a #neveroprah diary but have yet to write one about any other white male billionaire..
.My question is: Why is that?
What about Oprah is soooo scary to you that isn’t with any other candidate. I bet you can’t be honest about the answer.