And the Winner is....
Barak Obama
Here's my take.
Let's forget all politics for a moment and think just in terms of people. And unfortunately as it is, the first thing that you notice is racial in nature. this is unfortunate to me because I could never and still can't figure out why so many people over the years and to this day take such huge stock in one's race when making value judgements in people.
I always knew that Jesse Jackson was significant because he was breaking new ground, but it never made sense to me. I knew that Collin Powell and Condie Rice, and Alberto Gonzoles were significant as well in terms of racial equality in the leadership of the country. But I could never figure out why race had to enter the picture in the first place.
Now everyone is making a huge deal about the first black president, and I have to admit that after an unbroken line of 43 white presidents, it's nice to have a change, but the real question for me is, why should it have taken over 40 presidents for race to become insignificant enough that anyone other than a white person could become president?
It's mindnumbingly difficult to figure out for me. If America was created under the proposition that "all men are created equal," then why all the fuss about race?
Politics aside, I am glad that Obama won, because maybe now we can finally look at people and treat them on the basis of their character, and not on their skin colour. I hope Obama stays in for 8 years and remains at least reasonably popular. And I mean that no matter what his politics turn out to be, because that way, everyone will have a good long look at someone other than a white person at the top. Hopefully after 4 or 8 years, people will realize that race does not have any bearing whatsoever on an individual's qualifications to be a good leader. Neither does it have any bearing whatsoever on his or her character in general.
Hopefully people can grow up. If Obama is the change agent for this to happen, I'm all for him. It would have a much larger impact over the future of the country than any policies he could ever devise.
Here's my take.
Let's forget all politics for a moment and think just in terms of people. And unfortunately as it is, the first thing that you notice is racial in nature. this is unfortunate to me because I could never and still can't figure out why so many people over the years and to this day take such huge stock in one's race when making value judgements in people.
I always knew that Jesse Jackson was significant because he was breaking new ground, but it never made sense to me. I knew that Collin Powell and Condie Rice, and Alberto Gonzoles were significant as well in terms of racial equality in the leadership of the country. But I could never figure out why race had to enter the picture in the first place.
Now everyone is making a huge deal about the first black president, and I have to admit that after an unbroken line of 43 white presidents, it's nice to have a change, but the real question for me is, why should it have taken over 40 presidents for race to become insignificant enough that anyone other than a white person could become president?
It's mindnumbingly difficult to figure out for me. If America was created under the proposition that "all men are created equal," then why all the fuss about race?
Politics aside, I am glad that Obama won, because maybe now we can finally look at people and treat them on the basis of their character, and not on their skin colour. I hope Obama stays in for 8 years and remains at least reasonably popular. And I mean that no matter what his politics turn out to be, because that way, everyone will have a good long look at someone other than a white person at the top. Hopefully after 4 or 8 years, people will realize that race does not have any bearing whatsoever on an individual's qualifications to be a good leader. Neither does it have any bearing whatsoever on his or her character in general.
Hopefully people can grow up. If Obama is the change agent for this to happen, I'm all for him. It would have a much larger impact over the future of the country than any policies he could ever devise.
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