Why is sex and race still an issue for the presidency?

Question

This why we can never look forward. Look past the skin and the genitals and look at the person. I am more interested in how that person is able to do the job and how they conduct themselves.

I know what it like to be judged by looks. I wear black a lot and I have been called a satanist, vampire, and worse and this is by blacks and whites. None of them know that I have two college degrees. I just think it is sad because we are so far behind in our thinking as opposed to other countries.

Answer 1

peopel are stupid and they just can't stand that someone is different from them or god forbidd better then them too

Answer 2

Personally, I don't feel it is an issue for presidency any more than two black coaches being the first in the super bowl. I am not looking at gender or color, hell I am not even going by the political party...I am going by who I think can do the best job. Unfortunately, I don't think Hilary is it. As we seen with Bill and even their daughter...there are issues. I don't promote the lack of values or morals that it appears they have...and of all things to do..."run" the country. I feel it is asking for more integrity issues from our government...as if there are not enough. Don't get me wrong I am happy that she is very strong with everything she has been through, and I feel that gives other women a role model to look up to, but at this time I do not feel she is white house material (I don't feel many of the politicians are...many of them seem to have integrity issues)

Answer 3

Because it seems that some men do not like the thought of a woman being in a higher position then they are in.. some ego thing with the men. and the women just does not like the one running.
Most of the ones that has a problem with the race issue are prejudice white people.

Aslong as the person running is the best one for the job, it should not matter their gender, the color of their skin, their religion or lack of religion. who they are married to. and the list can go on and on...

For me I dont care if it is a person of a different race then I am or the fact that a person is a woman, or man. its the one that I feel will be the best one for this country.

Answer 4

Clearly people are still stuck in the early half of the twentieth century. In a perfect world, sex or race shouldn't matter. I agree with you. People need to get with the times. I actually heard someone say that the fact that women get PMS and it messes with hormones is a valid reason to not choose a woman for a president.

Answer 5

The ones with microphones and camares don't feel that way. It's news or something else to point out that may raise their fame and ratings. I was surprissed at the hoopla of the 2 black coaches in the super bowl. They looked like 2 men out on the field to me but I suppose it's something someone feels the need to point out.

Answer 6

i'm more interested in the capability the person has to do the job well....but it's not only in the the presidency that this issue is evident, its present in every aspect of american society..its really sad that americans believe that they are way ahead of the curve in terms of their thinking compared with the rest of the world...the thruth of the matter is the opposite, this country is way behind in their thinking......america seems to be the last place to adapt any kind of social change......example, how many countries in world have already elected women to lead them?

Answer 7

It doesn't matter. It is a fact that no man will be president unless he is a member of the Skulls and Bones. And I don't think any blacks or women are members. Find out who does belong to that group...and you will find the next president.

Answer 8

The institution of Government is afraid of tolerance - quick to spout off about it, as long as it doesn't have to practise it itself.

Simple as.

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right !!!

Answer 9

It just is. Unfortunately, too few people in this voting world are mature enough to see the actual good points, for lack of a better word, of a candidate, only that "she's a woman" or "he's gay". This is why the presidential elect is par; there are better people out there, they just don't meet the "standard".

Answer 10

Congratulations on being so neutral and analytical..unfortunately 90% of normal human beings are conditioned by first appearances and only then try to unravel what is real and what is prejudice!

Answer 11

Democrats make most unracial issues into race issues. Republicans are called raciests and Democrats get a pass. There are no former clansman in the Republican party.

Robert Byrd (ever hear of Him?) Why does the civil rights party give him a pass?

Participation in the Ku Klux Klan

In the early 1940s, when Byrd was 24 years old, he joined the Ku Klux Klan, which he had seen holding parades in Matoaka, West Virginia, as a child. His father had also been a Klan member[1]. Byrd was unanimously elected to be the leader, known as the Exalted Cyclops, of his local chapter.[2]

Byrd, in his autobiography, attributed the beginnings of his political career to this incident, although he lamented that they involved the Klan. According to Byrd's recollection, Klan official Joel L. Baskin told him, "You have a talent for leadership, Bob... The country needs young men like you in the leadership of the nation." Byrd recalls that "suddenly lights flashed in my mind! Someone important had recognized my abilities. I was only 23 or 24, and the thought of a political career had never struck me. But strike me that night, it did."[2] He participated in the KKK for a period of time during World War II, holding the titles "Kleagle", which indicated a Klan recruiter, and "Exalted Cyclops". Byrd did not serve in the military during the war, working instead as a welder in a Baltimore shipyard, assembling warships.

Byrd commented on the 1945 controversy raging over the idea of racially integrating the military. In his book When Jim Crow Met John Bull[3], Graham Smith referred to a letter written that year by Byrd, when he was 28 years old, to segregationist Senator Theodore Bilbo of Mississippi, in which Byrd vowed never to fight:

"with a ***** by my side. Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds."[4]

When running for Congress in 1952, he announced, "After about a year, I became disinterested, quit paying my dues, and dropped my membership in the organization. During the nine years that have followed, I have never been interested in the Klan." During this campaign, "Byrd went on the radio to acknowledge that he belonged to the Klan from 'mid-1942 to early 1943,' according to newspaper accounts. He explained that he had joined 'because it offered excitement and because it was strongly opposed to communism.' "[2]

However, as late as 1946 or 1947 he was still at least somewhat involved in promoting the KKK, as evidenced by a letter that he wrote to a Grand Wizard stating "The Klan is needed today as never before and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia" and "in every state in the nation."[5]

In 1997, he told an interviewer he would encourage young people to become involved in politics, but: "Be sure you avoid the Ku Klux Klan. Don't get that albatross around your neck. Once you've made that mistake, you inhibit your operations in the political arena."[citation needed]

In his latest autobiography, Byrd explained that he was a member because he "was sorely afflicted with tunnel vision — a jejune and immature outlook — seeing only what I wanted to see because I thought the Klan could provide an outlet for my talents and ambitions." [6]

Byrd also said in 2005: "I know now I was wrong. Intolerance had no place in America. I apologized a thousand times . . . and I don't mind apologizing over and over again. I can't erase what happened."[2]