Why the American Public Argues Whether There Should Be a Black President Before a Woman President?

Could the American People be on the verge of the next "Chicken or Egg" dispute? Which came first, the African-American President, or the Woman President?

For decades, the American Public has been involved in a heated debate over whether there should be an African-American President before a Woman President. And this upcoming election year brings us closer to knowing which will arrive first than any other election year in our History.

The foundation of this argument stems from the history of American Politics that the African-American Male was allowed, by law, to vote fifty years earlier than Women.

The facts are written out in our Constitution with the 15th Amendment being passed in 1870 to allow African-American Men to legally vote, subsequently then, passing the 19th Amendment, as stated earlier, fifty years later, in 1920, for all women to be able to legally vote.

Knowing the facts in American Politics' History of when Women or African-American Men were allowed, by law, to vote, it is the argument of many American Citizens that an African-American should be elected President of the United States of America before any Woman.

Why should this be?

If there are viable candidates, one of the African-American race, and one of a Woman (regardless of race), why should there be any precedent over whom would be better able to lead the country in a fair, responsible manner, taking the Oath of Office "to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States?"

In this upcoming election year, America finally has both: A Woman, and an African-American.

With Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama both vying for the Democratic Party's Nomination for the 2008 Presidential Election, and being the front runners in most polling across the Nation, this debate has never been more prominent.

Although, with the War in Iraq, Global Warming, and Domestic issues presently being the largest debate topics between candidates on both sides of the Party lines, Republican and Democratic alike, it should be "hats off" to the American Public!

With the large-scale disputes that are at stake this upcoming election year, and how to responsibly handle them as a leader arising during debates and interviews, the topic of sex and race seems to have been hardly brought up. But should they?

The answer looks as if to be simple: No, we, as the voting American Public should not care, and neither should the media.

Clinton, being the first Student Commencement Speaker at Wellesley College, speaking of making the "impossible, possible" in regards to Politics, then serving as a lawyer on the House Judiciary Committee during the point in time of Richard Nixon's impeachment consideration, both before becoming a very politically active First Lady in the 1992 Presidential Election.

Then, in the 2000 Elections, Clinton took up office in the United States Senate as the Democratic Senator from New York, leading up to holding the leading role for the Democratic Party's Presidential Nomination.

Obama, as the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review, he became a Civil Rights Lawyer, and then was elected to the United States Senate as the Democratic Senator of Illinois, where he has served for eight years.

So, now, as the third African American since Reconstruction to be elected to the United States Senate, Obama has forged ahead to become, so far, the next leading candidate for the Democratic Party's Presidential Nomination, only a few percentage points behind Clinton in the Nation's leading polling data.

Should there be a dispute over the Chicken or the Egg? The first African-American President or the first Woman President? No.

Sources:

Emory Law School

http://www.law.emory.edu/cms/site/index.php?id=3106

The American Presidency

http://americanhistory.si.edu/presidency/1b2.html

Hillary for President

http://www.hillaryclinton.com/?splash=1

Obama '08

http://www.barackobama.com::::