Ms. Ferraro, the former congresswoman and vice-presidential candidate who backs Senator
Hillary Rodham Clinton, told The Daily Breeze, a newspaper in Torrance, Calif.: “If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. And if he was a woman of any color, he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is.
And the country is caught up in the concept.”