What Killer Mike Actually said: Quoting feminist and activist Jane Elliott

[Nanjeanne]

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Which I think everyone should agree with. Even Clinton supporters. Policies should matter most.

just the facts here.

I thought I'd add who Jane Elliot is just in case someone wants to say "what does she know"

Jane Elliott (born May 27, 1933, in Riceville, Iowa) is an American former third-grade schoolteacher, anti-racism activist, and educator, as well as a feminist and LGBT activist. She is known for her "Blue eyes–Brown eyes" exercise. She first conducted her famous exercise for her class the day after Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot. When her local newspaper published compositions that the children wrote about the experience, the reactions (both positive and negative) formed the basis for her career as a public speaker against discrimination. Elliott's classroom exercise was filmed the third time she held it with her 1970 third-graders to become Eye of the Storm. This in turn inspired a retrospective that reunited the 1970 class members with their teacher fifteen years later in A Class Divided. After leaving her school, Elliott became a diversity trainer full-time and has been on both The Oprah Winfrey Show and The Ellen DeGeneres Show. She still holds the exercise and gives lectures about its effects all over the U.S. and in several locations overseas.

[beam me up scottie]

1. THANK YOU!!!

Rec for the truth!

[Luminous Animal]

2. Thank you! Jane Elliott is an amazing woman.

[PatrynXX]

10. nice how that works Hillary attacks Feminists... oops

course Bernie is a Feminist, don't necessarily need to be female to be one

[PonyUp]

3. The truth will set them free! n/t

[Uncle Joe]

4. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Nanjeanne.

[Luminous Animal]

5. K & R.

[George II]

6. He's dancing backward - he DID say a "uterus doesn't qualify you to be president."

[Nanjeanne]

7. No. Jane Elliott said uterus. And what's wrong with the word?

She also said you have to have policies. Ain't that the truth.

[passiveporcupine]

13. Oh good grief!

[phleshdef]

15. Yes, while quoting a known feminist activist, who actually said it to begin with.

You aren't scoring any points by pretending that he walked anything back. You might make yourself feel better but you aren't convincing anyone else.

[George II]

28. Read this:

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/02/killer-mike-sexism-uterus-sanders-clinton/463167/

[Lucky Luciano]

8. I didn't know her name, but my school showed us the film when I was about 8 or 9 years old.

Very cool woman.

[emmadoggy]

11. She taught at my school.

She taught 3rd grade for many years, though I didn't have her at that time. I later had her for Jr. High Literature class. A cousin of mine was in the original "Blue eyes/Brown eyes" group. She is not someone you ever forget.

[WillyT]

9. HUGE K & R !!! - Thank You !!!

[zentrum]

12. I'm with Jane!

[LovingA2andMI]

14. Maybe if they focus on the problems with their candidate...

I.E. Hillary Clinton -- and less on what Killer Mike said about a organ nearly every Woman has...it would make the most sense.

However, the Clinton Campaign is making less and less sense by the minute....

[Luminous Animal]

16. They've no clue who they are stampeding over in their zeal to take down a black man.

[George II]

19. Surely you're talking about Sanders supporters' "zeal" to take down John Lewis, right?

[noiretextatique]

25. Lewis took himself down

it was an embarrassment. He lost a lot of respect among african-americans i know.

[George II]

26. No he didn't.

[noiretextatique]

30. yes he did. are you another 'black expert'?

there seem to be a lot of you these days.

[George II]

31. What is a "black expert", and what do you you mean by "a lot of you"? Pretty offensive.

[noiretextatique]

32. i mean white clinton supporters who keep claiming they know what black people think

yes...it is offensive. and a big complaint from black clinton supporters about bernie sanders supporters.

[AzDar]

17. Shameful. Just... SHAMEFUL.

[mariawr]

20. Amanda Marcotte (of BernieBro fame) is over at Salon ...

Flogging this dead horse of story today.

[MisterP]

21. and Duke and UVa fame

(no wonder most of what she and Valenti say about men applies to *AA* men)

[Luminous Animal]

22. And, via Huffington Post, Jane Elliott has this to say....

"I think the reaction is because a man said what I said. If a woman had made that statement there would have been no problem, but because a man said it, it becomes a sexist statement. It's a ridiculous thing to be upset about," Elliott told The Huffington Post. "It should be a fact of life that neither gender nor skin color should determine whether you are appropriate for leadership of the government of the United States of America."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/killer-mike-sexism_us_56c48340e4b0b40245c881be

[Nanjeanne]

23. Thank You Jane.

[Blue_In_AK]

24. Thank you for clarifying this.

I have FB feminist friends who are quite upset with Killer Mike and by extension Bernie Sanders.

[LWolf]

27. Thanks for clearing that up.

I'm sure we all want honesty and integrity from the media and from campaign talking points.

I agree with Jane Elliott.

[SMC22307]

29. K&R

[Oilwellian]

33. Thank you for posting this

The attempted slur toward Killer Mike was so slimy. Now Ms. Elliot's words will get even more attention. Love how it backfires like that.