“They’re attacking me because I’m white”

She said some offensive stuff before, but in her interview today, Geraldine Ferraro really crossed a line. Her comments tear open old charges and counter-charges about race that never lead to anything productive. On top of that, she asserted that “Sexism is a bigger problem” than racism, a claim that revisits rivalries between the civil rights movement and the women’s rights movement that didn’t need to be revisited in this campaign. I don’t think she’s a racist but, as Roland Martin said on CNN this evening, these are race-based attacks. The whole subject of weighing quantity and quality of grievance is very damaging for the Democratic Party.