I am totally pissed off right now. I just read on AOL news that politcal historians and other experts have predicted a landslide in the upcoming election. Of course, this election is not for 5 months, so to make such an extreme prediction is idiotic. But that's not what really irriates me. What irritates me is WHY they think we will have a landslide. No, McCain will not win because Barack Obama is black. Evidently we have all become okay with have black leaders. That is a good thing.
The sad thing is that they predict Barack Obama will win by a landslide for two reasons, voters do not like Bush (who is not running) and Obama is black. Evidently black republicans of note, conservative republicans who are black, are feeling that they might have to vote for Barack Obama, whom they totally disagree with on all policies, simply because he is black. John McCain, a man who has served our country for virtually his entire life (he was a military brat, that's payment as a kid for not having a life), cannot win because his predecessor is not popular, and McCain is not black.
I am voting for McCain because I like a lot about him. I like the fact that he was a POW who voluntarily stayed in Vietnam instead of jumping the line to go home before others because his dad was an Admiral in the Navy. I admire the fact that he mouths off to his own party when he knows they are wrong, that he rats out all of the Senate and Congress for pork added into bills. I like that fact that he has a tremendously high IQ. And I like the fact that his wife went to visit Mother Teresa and came home with an adopted baby girl who needed surgery without asking him and he was just fine with that. He didn't care what race the child was, she was their daughter and he became her dad. You will not see him flaunting his dark skinned daughter in order to win a few votes from people who vote purely for race.
The thing is, whites have finally stopped voting for people because they are white, or promoting people because they are white. Now it seems that white people are going to start losing elections and jobs simply because they are white. That pisses me off. I have spent my entire life learning about other people's cultures and supporting multicultural environments. I do not want to see white people becoming better people while black people decide to retaliate for things that I and many others have never done.
Many people will be shocked by my saying these things. But I never liked or disliked anyone because of their race. I never let it be an issue, and I do not want others to start that crap up again just as we are finally evening out the playing field. Vote for the president because of his policies, not because of his skin color. Get a brain, get a life. I don't care who wins, as long as it's for what he stands for and what he can accomplish.
1 comment:
Right on sister! I wish that it was really about the politics, but this time around it really isn't. I know that the history of slavery/oppression are important, but I think our world leader should have more than the color of his skin on his resume.
:S
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