She's something of a liberal elitist. Even I'm disdainful of how she regards anyone who isn't part of her comfort zone.
I dislike Bible-thumping fundamentalists for trying to hijack education with Creationism, but she truly derides them for it.
The city-dweller AND the ruralite play a vital role in a modern economy and society. Any student of history will tell you this, but man, the shit-flinging and dick-waving between the left and the right sickens me.
I remember when Clinton was dubbed "America's first black president" by Toni Morrison in 1998.
>African-American men seemed to understand it right away. Years ago, in the middle of the Whitewater investigation, one heard the first murmurs: white skin notwithstanding, this is our first black President. Blacker than any actual black person who could ever be elected in our children's lifetime. After all, Clinton displays almost every trope of blackness: single-parent household, born poor, working-class, saxophone-playing, McDonald’s-and-junk-food-loving boy from Arkansas. And when virtually all the African-American Clinton appointees began, one by one, to disappear, when the President’s body, his privacy, his unpoliced sexuality became the focus of the persecution, when he was metaphorically seized and body-searched, who could gainsay these black men who knew whereof they spoke? The message was clear: “No matter how smart you are, how hard you work, how much coin you earn for us, we will put you in your place or put you out of the place you have somehow, albeit with our permission, achieved. You will be fired from your job, sent away in disgrace, and—who knows?—maybe sentenced and jailed to boot. In short, unless you do as we say (i.e., assimilate at once), your expletives belong to us.”
newyorker.com/magazine/1998/10/05/comment-6543
Man, it's amazing how things have changed nearly 20 years since then.