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.
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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
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