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March 2008
“If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position,”
“And if he was a woman of any color he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is. And the country is caught up in the concept.”
“Every time that campaign is upset about something, they call it
racist,” she said. “I will not be discriminated against because I’m
white. If they think they’re going to shut up Geraldine Ferraro with
that kind of stuff, they don’t know me.”
April 1988
And former representative Geraldine A. Ferraro
(D-N.Y.) said Wednesday that because of his "radical" views, "if Jesse
Jackson were not black, he wouldn't be in the race."
Asked
about this at a campaign stop in Buffalo, Jackson at first seemed ready
to pounce fiercely on his critics. But then he stopped, took a breath,
and said quietly, "Millions of Americans have a point of view different
from" Ferraro's.
Discussing the same point in Washington,
Jackson said, "We campaigned across the South . . . without a single
catcall or boo. It was not until we got North to New York that we began
to hear this from Koch, President Reagan and then Mrs. Ferraro . . . .
Some people are making hysteria while I'm making history."
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