Race and Gender in the Political Process

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." Martin Luther King

It is with this quotation in mind that I shudder at the divisive politics occurring in the Democratic National Party. We are not judging people by their character but by the color of their skin and by their gender. The media and the DNC has let the pc fascists dictate the discourse and with that the further closing of the American mind. Divide and conquer someone long ago said. Successfully applied to the democratic race where the issues at hand are not what the next president will be capable of doing or whether the next president will be able to inspire a demoralized populace brought down by the weight of their own fallacious dreams of free market capitalism. No, the issues of this current contest are whether we want a woman or a black for president.

We don't choose our friends because of their skin color, (socio-economic standing more likely), no one dares trump the race or gender card as the basis for hiring policies. And yet we have, amongst the chaos that constitutes America at the turn of this new century, collectively decided that our principal choice is whether we want the first woman or the first black to be our utmost representative both nationally and internationally. It is all coming down to the blocks of black and women voters and whether they'll be faithful to their own. Ludicrous, dangerous and absolutely short sighted as can be gleaned from past and present experiences. To name but a couple of examples, we have the only African American on the Supreme Court, Clarence Thomas, who has consistently voted against the most basic of rulings involving issues that affect predominantly blacks, namely the discrepancy in sentencing for drug offences. We had Margaret Thatcher, who with her politics of less government and with one fell swoop, destroyed social welfare programs aimed specifically at children and women.

The pundits have gleefully been playing social scientists, with charts and statistics stating what percentage of who has gone with the "black candidate" or the "Woman candidate". Yes, the issues of economics and the war and the decaying standards of education are here and there mentioned, oh, but how much more delightful to argue the finer points of race and gender politics. And the voters, as usual, mere sheep to the media shepherd, are only happy to oblige blinded in their ill and short sighted belief that they are making history. When elected, whoever wins whether it is a black or a woman, will have but one allegiance and that is the perpetuating of a system instituted over 200 years ago by a group of wealthy white male land owners. And which when all is said and done, is the only social experiment that has ever been devised that accomplished with a good percentage of success what it set itself up to do.