Former vice-presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro has given up her fundraising position with Sen. Hillary Clinton’s campaign.

“I am stepping down from your finance committee so I can speak for myself and you can continue to speak for yourself about what is at stake in this campaign,” Ferraro wrote in a letter to Clinton, sent Wednesday. “The Obama campaign is attacking me to hurt you. I won’t let that happen.”

Ferraro had recently made the following remarks to a California newspaper: “If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. And if he was a woman 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.”

She told CNN today that she was “absolutely not” sorry for her statement. “I am who I am and I will continue to speak up,” she said.