Looking for the great white hope!
2007 July 26
All of the presidents have been rich white men, right?
Esquire asks: Can a white man still be elected president?
by Racialicious special correspondent Wendi Muse, originally published at Does Race Matter?
Have you seen this cover? What are they really trying to say?
“Can a white man still be elected president?” asks Esquire of its readers in next month’s issue featuring presidential hopeful John Edwards.
Um, I’m sorry, but did I miss a memo? I would love to read the article, but the opening remark on the cover is a big time turn off. What exactly are they trying to say here? Esquire editors might be attempting to be cute and sarcastic with their cover page line, but to me it rings of the infamous fear that one day, the world will wake up and find itself being run entirely by minorities, oh and women too.
Exactly!