bfp puts Kathleen Parker in her place.  (The article being examined.)

toni morrison was making a very specific critique of how violence and structural power can be used against a person—no matter what position of power that person has managed to achieve. to constantly attack, discredit, put on the defensive, and delegitimize.

parker is looking at a poor performance, increasing disenchantment from a voting public, and saying—like, look! it’s like, cuz he likes teamwork! and women like teamwork! he’s totes like a woman!

It goes on.

Parker’s article is either a cheap trick exploiting the critical work a black woman did much better—or Parker is so incapable of seeing past her own privilege she doesn’t even realize how ridiculous her arguments are.

or maybe it’s a bit of both.

but…in the end. i know toni morrison. i was friends with toni morrison back in university. (not really). and Kathleen Parker—you are no Toni Morrison.

This is the woman who should be writing columns in the Washington Post.  (In an alternate universe, she, Avedon Carol, and Digby have the pundit slots at Meet the Press.  Karnythia has a NY Times Op-Ed column.  Daisy Deadhead is the editor of Harper's, and Driftglass writes for the Chicago Tribune, using the Royko desk for mojo.  And Arthur Silber would have several books out, instead of publishers wasting trees on Glenn Beck.)