hunh?

"Years ago, in the middle of the Whitewater investigation, one heard the first murmurs: white skin notwithstanding, this is our first black President. Blacker than any actual black person who could ever be elected in our children’s lifetime. After all, Clinton displays almost every trope of blackness: single-parent household, born poor, working-class, saxophone-playing, McDonald’s-and-junk-food-loving boy from Arkansas."
- Toni Morrison

She was the one who started the "Bill Clinton might as well be Black" trend? I hadn't realized that she was the one who attempted to make that link.

I keep saying that many of the Black academics don't seem to have class analysis linked to their race analysis. If he was being treated anyhow by the media during that time period, their treatment might have been seen as classism. What she describes is classism directed at working class, working poor white folks, as much as it can also be constructed as racism directed at Black people.

Her deciding to construct his existence and treatment as about Blackness tells us more about her analysis or lack thereof, than about Clinton's lived experience or how he was dealt with during the Monica Lewinsky "scandal" which was more than likely just a tool used to rivet our attention in a particular direction while something else much more interesting was going on elsewhere.