White Women And The Stand By Your Man Syndrome
Since Eliot "I Likes Dem High-Class Hoes" Spitzer's wife asked him to fight to keep his job when this mess first broke publicly, this cartoon is strictly wishful thinking on the cartoonist's part. As the comedian Mo'nique jokes; "white women ain't about to let nothin' mess with the paper." Women of color need to pay attention to this long-standing habit of white women "standing by their man" in the face of the absolute worse humiliations. Hillary Clinton, Mrs. Spitzer and Mrs. Vitter and that child in New Jersey who knew her man was gay all the time, show the lengths some white women will go to maintain their privilege and power. And we as women of color expect them to stand up for us? We have got to be nuts.
