We once had a female Bernie run for President. 1972. Her name was Shirley Chisholm.
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A black woman with Bernie’s passion, who called for a bloodless revolution, ran for the Democratic nomination for President in 1972 and lost to George McGovern (and several other men), who went on to lose 49 states to Richard Nixon. This woman was Shirley Chisholm.
Shirley said that it she faced more discrimination running for Congress in NY, and later for President, as a woman than as a black person. She survived three assassination attempts during her run.
Older women saw what happened to Shirley and are well aware of the discrimination that any woman must overcome.
Still.
Even today if Bernie were Bernice, he wouldn't have had a chance.
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-04-15/advice-for-hillary-clinton-on-campaigning-as-a-woman
Representative Terri Sewell, the Alabama Democrat, recalls interviewing the pioneering New York congresswoman and presidential candidate Shirley Chisholm for her senior Princeton thesis in 1986. When she asked whether it had been harder running as an African American or as a woman, Chisholm said the latter was “unequivocally” more challenging. And in Sewell's own experience, “that’s as true today as it was when she told me that 30 years ago!”
From Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Chisholm
1972 presidential campaign[edit]
In 1972, Chisholm became the first black major-party candidate to run for President of the United States, in the 1972 U.S. presidential election, making her also the first woman ever to run for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination.[2] During the campaign, she survived three assassination attempts.[22] At the Democratic Convention, she won 152 first-ballot votes.[2][23] Decades later, observers would credit Chisholm's 1972 campaign as paving the way for both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in their bids for the presidency in 2008.[3]
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She also struggled to be regarded as a serious candidate instead of as a symbolic political figure;[12] she was ignored by much of the Democratic political establishment and received little support from her black male colleagues.[3] Many headlines constructed Chisholm as an emasculating matriarch with headlines such as the Boston Globe’s “Rep. Shirley Chisholm outflanks her black political brothers”.[24] She later reiterated, "When I ran for the Congress, when I ran for president, I met more discrimination as a woman than for being black. Men are men."[9] In particular, she expressed frustration about the "black matriarch thing", saying, "They think I am trying to take power from them. The black man must step forward, but that doesn't mean the black woman must step back."[6] Her husband, however, was fully supportive of her candidacy and said, "I have no hangups about a woman running for president."[13]
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Vote for Hillary because she's not Henry?
I'm not sure what the message is here, can someone help me out?
Are we not supposed to vote for the person we think is the best candidate regardless of gender?
Next thing you know someone will compare Hillary to the Virgin Mary.
Oh, wait, someone already did.
a true hero of mine,that is for sure!!!!
