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EDITORIAL Is there room for two in the White House? Hillary Clinton lias played a very influential role in ih(! Whin* House It seems her influence, or her need to influence, is becoming a runaway train Although she may be qualified to perform the tasks that she has i re ated for herself, it seems the rest of the White House isn't. "It's hard to run a White House with nobody in charge," said a friend of the Clintons. "It's espet ially hard to run the White House with nobody in charge and two presidents." Hillary has moved into the White House and has tak on on a role unlike any other first lady in history To accomplish her tasks she has brought personal troops along with her. many of whom are people who have been deeply ingrained in Clinton history and some are even i ailed close friends Now it seems the fear of the others working in the While House is jeopardizing inter mil relationships. "No one wants to toll Hill or uspe< ially Hillary that they can’t do things the way they're used to doing them." said .i top administrative official, "And so mam ut these people around are old friends that y ou can't itist break into the < ircie Some of the old friends and rei mils have questioned the integrity of their appointments Of course there is Bernard Nussbaum yvho resigned Friday. Vincent VV f oster [r Nussbaum's deputy who committed.suit id>' last summer; and the ,\sso< iate Attorney Cenerai Web ster I liubiiel. yvho undoubtedly yvill have his hands full for quite some time as the Whiteyvafei scandal con tinues to be unveiled. All three men had one thing in common recruited by Hillary from the Hose I„m Firm of I.itlle Rock, the same law firm that Hillary herself yvorked for. “The senior staff nlway s fears crossing a first lady." said Marlin Fitzrvater. former press sei rotary for Presi dent Ceorge Hush and spokesman for President Ronald Reagan. "Partly it's respect for the offu o of tlu* first lady Partly its a man-woman thing You're afraid that when she's home yv itli the president, she'll repeat the charges against you every night for the rest of your life." The working relationships within the White House must become cohesive or serious barriers already form ing will become impossible to break down. If the first lady 's rob- is going to encompass as much as Hillary’s, then the neressai v framework must support it The prob lem has risen simply because it has not existed before and people are hay mg trouble making room for it She is taking a path and forging ahead alone But her agenda and the president's aren't complementing each other, instead they re making them more difficult, llillaiv Clinton has proved to be a very poyverful woman I'here need-, to be a plan of .iltai k prior to the .ittac k. and the plan has yet to be unveiled. She yvas not voted into a politic al oftii e She does not even have an offic ial title. The name first lady has simply been hand ed down through history. try to find it in the Constitu tion. When Hill Clinton yvas elected by the people and for the people, so yvas his wife, and maybe her name should have been on the ballot as well. (Daily Emerald P 0 BOX 31M. iUGfNE OREGON 97403 • At ’>■ f -s . shad 'i.i > M *;i> !*'• -..gh > '<la» the v ' Tuesday ana Thursday Ou»«ng me surr.-r.e’ tv, th* Oegon O.i , Emenf Co irv. at the un-verity o'v>ego- Fug®0® Opgo*1 .1' Ut' ttno is a member ol the Auoodlod Press • h- ip ..Ilf , * •**■ f y .«*V . ‘,4* • . ^ x* . . m«, ..'at Managing Editor l a>tonal Editor Graphics Editor Freelance Editor Associate Editors Edilor-in-Chiet .i»" Hi-,; i c, A?h>- Sports Editor . u ’ 1 Editorial Editor «tff Kiv.iy Photo Editor • A v •. Supplements Editor Night Editor .teve M • vi-,1 *• .pier vs Iff' SfiiJr^5' K've.-'-'f’e-! Acl/v sm Urghtu l .?>• • At*n > «!m'h ■'.'w W' % j«ff PiCkhardt M*chae-i St'1 «5u*' HtiN*. a Me" News Staff M.t v, h.». 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Caylon Vee Ho«»ioom 340-5511 Displ»» Actvertiung 346-3712 Bu*ine».Omc« 346-5512 Cl»*»m*d Advortlmlng 346-4343 VOGUE COMMENTARY Amerikkka’s institutional racism run By David.Gfc*c ! ,i! : Kt-..r r J c !tatKJ The EmvmUi experiem i'i! a groundbreaking event dm |on .C Thi; staff dons not recognize their iii cnlacies of this dav. but il would In' crazy to expect them to Heading the words Asian-Anierii an dis crimination" on the front page was astonishing. Not because the artu In descrilmd ttie f,u ts of how Asian Amerii ails are dis i runinated against, hut bee auso the article was put in a place where it yvould ac tually attrai t enough attention to Ice read Pile Emerald is c oni prised of a predominantly white stall Phe Emerald's readers are pre dominantlv white people White i iters and white readers would seem tu lie an unlikely < umhina turn with Asian American dis c.rimination I he word white represents a political term th.it unities and c lassifies white people |usl as Asian American ’black Atman American" and so on does as well ) Id ward klopfenstein is a white person w ho w rote an arte c le about Asiau-Americans lor other fellow whites to read Why should a white person write about yellow issues' The answer is simple I he United Whites ol Amerii a movement is being confronted by some pesky obstacles The history of these ohslac les traces hack nun h far ther than the great Cihris Colo nialist Much of this history is unknown, hidden and shamed upon ior white benefit Some might say that the members of the UWA huve had a glorious history on the continent they discovered Pht-v united tu con duct the commodification of humans by means of a slave trade They united to commit cultural and phy sn al genocide, economic exploitation, as well as racial infuriori/ation through colonial education )ust what are these ohstac les ' They are. to he politic ally i orrec Obstacles of Color People yy lyi have been here for a long time and are now growing demographic alls faster than PWA doctrine intended them to The UWA system of unifu.a liihi h r. Imult iIm'II into ini inde ptmdeully running entity ol institutionalized while rac ism II is a mm.lime that runs without thought or cotisi'tjuein.e It Is supported bv laws and amend ments that aren't enfort ed Upon formal establishment of this i ountrv through the (lonstl tution. all white people learned that a blank person was three fifths of a human politic ally and should he whipped like a dog socially They learned that Native Americans wen* savages who hod no right to live on the only land they have ever known Through immigration and naturalization laws they learned that Asians were hea then. duty and unfit to he i iti zens And to this day we learn that native Maw.mans hv law ire foreigners m their own land (designated wards ol the state.' never allowed to represent themselves hi court when it comes to land rights land that to indigenous people is basical ly the right to life) Popular Americ an history is a fallac y It should he ret 11 led While Pride Studies It seems the* t WA. even when re. ugm/ mg their oppressive 11 ts pre sents t hem selves in a positive wlute light A white man. Abraham Lin coln. propagated his rac ism dog ma of white superiority on repeated instances vet In* was deemed the (.real lunani ipator The same white people who shm kled those of a blemished and w u kedly tilac k c olur one ci.iy Ins ame the v ery sav mrs the next A white man Franklin Roosevelt, propagated his rac ist dogma of JAPanese un-Ameri can inferiority bv treating the laps" like c aged animals, vet he is a highly ac c redded Amer ican One day the great white Turopean Michelangelo prop i gated Ins rac is! dogma of white Christianity In drawing a pii • turn of Ins white unt le in the form til ,i white Jesus Christ, .1 w hite God This image of a man who at least 11 yed Ins earth 1\ existence as an Aral) Jew appears to lie a handsomely pale white person to whom millions of people have and 1 ontinue to kneel and pay reverence A white man, John I Kennedy, stated that he did not want "[links, radii els, and black vot ers to out vote those who are trv ing to preseiw e our segregated laws and other traditions l ilt* example of white propa gallon ol white racism through white institutions, white hooks white law s and white wavs are endless Ask us il you would like some more As a while man, benjamin Franklin, eloquently stated, " this Nation should remain beautifully white " All guilty as charged Institutional racism is not hate, it is ,1 deliberate mecha nism of oppression passed down by our forefathers White , learn to oppress and non whites learn to lie oppressed Institu tional racism is a system 111 whii h whites talk to whites yvho giye whites johs, tell whites news, te.n h white history and tell white lies It is a sy stem ol communication and allocation of resources between people yvho identify with eat h other on the basis id skin tone They shut others out of the process ill ally wav possible and in many cases uncunsi iously In Psychology 202 y\e learn that stereoty pes are used to maintain cognitive con sistency In the I WA, they are used to maintain a power con tingent v Think AmeriKKha David C Grri-nbaum and Kevin K/ l.'hang art• students at thr l 'tin ersifv COMMENTARY POLICY Tim (Oregon Daily Emerald vvelcomes commentaries from the public coneermng topii s of interest to the l imersiu < onimu nity Commentaries should he between (>()() and H00 words, legi file, signed and the identifu ation of the writer must !>e verified when the letter is submitted The Emerald reserves the right to edit any letter lor length or style
