Submitted by PienotPi t3_11f8tb8 in Pennsylvania
Sensitive_Job_7164 t1_jajdt9y wrote
Why does skin color ever matter? Stop making everything about race.
Mijbr090490 t1_jajn7f5 wrote
It's kind of important in this context. Minorities are empowered by seeing people who look like them in positions of power. Look at a picture of the US presidents. Old white guy, old white guy, old white guy, younger black guy, old white (well, orange) guy, old white guy. Sorry your ego is so fragile.
Sensitive_Job_7164 t1_jajnlvl wrote
Your negative attitude shows your level of maturity.
Mijbr090490 t1_jajo597 wrote
That means a lot coming from the guy who is upset over skin color.
Sensitive_Job_7164 t1_jajocpv wrote
Not upset. Just can't understand why racists focus on it so much. It doesn't define people
Mijbr090490 t1_jajp3y0 wrote
Why is it racist to celebrate the first black women speaker of the house in Pa? You do realize that the Civil Rights act was passed less than 60 years ago and white supremacists groups still exist? I'd say its worth celebrating.
Sensitive_Job_7164 t1_jajrs8s wrote
Why boil everything about her, all her accomplishments and efforts, down to her sex and skin color for an articles title. Why is that always the goto and why am I the bad person for asking it?
Mijbr090490 t1_jajtk5r wrote
You answer my question first. How is it racist to celebrate her being the first black woman as speaker of the house? Do you think she doesn't want to be celebrated for that? Do you think that any black pioneers don't want to be recognized in that way?
Sensitive_Job_7164 t1_jajvdyy wrote
I want to know why her skin color matters for the position, for what she was voted to do? why should it even be mentioned, it means nothing to the job or role. It only matters to people that pay attention to those details, the people that make sure thats mentioned, the people that rage over someone asking why it matters.Her sex shouldnt matter either, will she do her job better or worse because she is female? why mention it at all?
Mijbr090490 t1_jajw4t1 wrote
You never answered my question yet you expect me to answer yours. Explain why it is racist to celebrate a black woman being the first PA speaker of the house.
cashonlyplz t1_jalysm2 wrote
It's living history. Jackie Robinson, etc. What is wrong with your brain? The culture war vaporize it?
Zenith2017 t1_jamypc7 wrote
It absolutely matters because representation matters
cashonlyplz t1_jalyemn wrote
Reverse racism isn't a thing.
Unfamiliar_Word t1_jaji4ua wrote
Why shouldn't it matter? It might not be the most momentous of occasions, but it's not insignificant given that there have been 142 Speakers prior to Johanna McClinton, but no women and only on other Black Pennsylvanian (K. Leroy Irvis).
If nothing also, given how prominent race has been throughout American history, especially in its politics, it seems naïve to think to feign its irrelevance. It's not making, "everything," about race to note the significance of somebody from a people who have been abused and oppressed throughout American history attaining a position of significant authority.
WikiSummarizerBot t1_jaji6qa wrote
>Kirkland Leroy Irvis (December 27, 1919 – March 16, 2006) was a teacher, activist and politician based in Pennsylvania; he was the first African American to serve as a speaker of the house in any state legislature in the United States since Reconstruction. (John Roy Lynch (1847–1939) of Mississippi had been the first African American to hold that position. ) Irvis, a Democrat, represented Pittsburgh in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1958–1988.
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Finrodsrod t1_jajljc4 wrote
It's a first. Yes. It matters that a barrier has been broken. Go sit down and pout.
Sensitive_Job_7164 t1_jajmixd wrote
What barriers? What percentage of people in office in that area are female ? How many women choose to be in that profession. Why make it seem something it isn't.
Finrodsrod t1_jajn4oh wrote
She's literally the first woman to be PA speaker of the house...
It's significant. Go sit down and shut up.
Sensitive_Job_7164 t1_jajne0g wrote
Keep trying to be insulting but the title could have listed accomplishments or goals. Not skin color and sex.
Finrodsrod t1_jajni37 wrote
To the corner with you.
Sonnescheint t1_jakiep4 wrote
"Accomplishments or goals" Well she's speaker of the state house for one thing
Zenith2017 t1_jamytyh wrote
The article lists those accomplishments and goals aplenty
discogeek t1_jajnpa7 wrote
She's the first female speaker, not the first African American.
delusions- t1_jalxasz wrote
She's not African any more than you're a European American
She's black
cashonlyplz t1_jalydot wrote
You're a dingus.
jodwilso t1_jals2fb wrote
The uniparty wants us working stiffs on its Demacrat wing and Republican wing to be divided over things like race, so the ruling class who they represent can keep stealing all the money.
They’ll fan the flames of anything that keeps the city and rural woking stiffs divided, and too distracted to look at them.
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