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01/15/2008: "Sexism, racism: which is more taboo?"

Expressions of sexism and racism emerging from the contest between Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barak Obama have been blatant, subtle and perhaps sometimes imagined, and they are renewing the national debate over what is and isn't acceptable to say in public.

Is it more acceptable, for instance, to make a sexist remark than a racist remark?

"It's always been easier," says Marie Wilson, president of the White House Project, which encourages women's advancement in politics. "With women, you can get away with it.

"With race, you can hardly say anything."

[ Women versus Africans, African men versus African women, when does the madness end -- we have different roles in the same world. The neurotic taboo is just funny. ]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080114/ap_po/sexism_racism