I’m sick of hearing commentary from television and radio personalities pronouncing: “Is the country ready for a black or female president?”. This tempts me to lose all faith in humanity. Just another tactic to push the general public into focusing more time on controversy and separation, and less time on truth or substance. But I’m often amazed that the very people asking these asinine, cliche, questions are considered “well educated” adults, and I question if they realize what is actually being said within this statement? Every time people say this, they are saying that mainstream America cares what uneducated racists, sexists, and fascists have to say about the topic (as if we don’t already know) . Is there truly a need to ask the opinion of fools, when you already know they will give a foolish answer? And notice that they always ask “Is America Ready” and never ask “Are You ready“. I guess they would rather ask people to speak for millions of others, instead of incriminating themselves as an ancient minded racist. I say that entertaining this question at any level is arrogant. As if anyone knows the minds and hearts of over 200 million Americans. Get real. Here is one way to put this into perspective, imagine that today you heard a news personality say, “are we ready for a black baseball player?”, you would probably be awestruck and hopefully disgusted. In my opinion, there should be an equally shocking reaction to the stupid question “are we ready for a minority or female president”.
And what is with this “ready for change” nonsense? When was the last time that all of America joined together and simultaneously agreed on a social change? Things often change without our permission, so it’s foolish to assume that we choose when to be “ready” for something new. We don’t make important decisions based on what foolish, disconnected, racist, fascists, or misogynistic groups think, so why make our voting decisions based on their input?
And furthermore, don’t forget the countless minority groups living in the United States right now that are not even discussed in this topic. In 10 years, for example, what if a Japanese, Mexican, or Chinese American citizen runs for presidential office. What about their rights and dignity? Will the media give us the same line of “Is the country ready for this?”. I’m confident that they will feed us this line for as long as we are willing to tolerate it.
I’m one to admit that there are several qualities to dislike about a person other than minute details such as skin tone and gender? Do you realize that most of the people you really dislike, are those closest to you! (bosses & in-laws) Not to say that racism and prejudice is not a huge issue in this country, but we only feed this monster when we entertain nonsensical questions like this and pass it off as intellectual conversation.
Wake up America, we’re not living in a time of segregated water fountains and seating arrangements. It may not have been a long time ago, but the majority of us know what is right, what is wrong, and we know that skin color and gender means absolutely NOTHING.
Regardless of people trying to focus on how racist everyone is, the truth is that we have come a long way, but the excuse of asking “Is the Country ready”, is simply a cop out. Think of new ways to stimulate our minds, we have enough problems…give us some solutions!
Propaganda 101.
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