Barack's mother

[Sisaruus]

I don't want to diminish the story of the single working mother putting herself through school (been there, done that) while on food stamps but I have to ask why we don't hear about her subsequent professional (and feminist) accomplishments. From an Ellen Goodman column:
<But what's less known is the woman in her own right, the one who became an anthropologist, the woman who spent years as the respected head of research for Women's World Banking, bringing micro-financing to poor people in Indonesia.>

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08130/880271-35.stm

[ismnotwasm]

1. That's an interesting thought

Why indeed? Better copy? Feminist accomplishments too threatening? I'm another former "welfare queen" who did a lot of work to get out of it. I only tell the story to those who seem to need to hear it, or those who need hope. In that context, I understand the need for story. But the rest of my personal story is more interesting. The whole story is
power itself, and yet, yet-- nowhere to the degree of the story of Stanley Ann Dunham Soetoro.


I have only to look at that disgustingly cynical repuke vice-president nomination to understand that the powers that be want to allow women the power they "allow".

[bliss_eternal]

2. A woman's greatest accomplishment is her spawn....

...dont'cha know?

:eyes::sarcasm:

[shimmergal]

3. Good point!

From what little I've read about her, Stanley Ann is a woman I would have liked to know.