November 28

The other day in class we talked about racism and how it related to the last presidential election. The fact that a non-white man won meant that a lot of people either voted or did not vote for him because of his skin color and not because of what values he represented. There were people that supported him thought that they were doing the moral thing and supporting someone of a different ethnicity. However, there were also people who did not vote for him because of that reason. Regardless of what stance they took on that, they were voting for him for all the wrong reasons and not because of what changes he wanted to bring about to the country. Same can be said for Hillary. A lot of feminists supported her because they thought that we need a woman in the office, and a lot of people didn’t support her because she was a woman. Also, I believe that if she were to win the election and then did not do a good job in the office people would think that “this is why a woman can’t run a country and this is why we shouldn’t elect another woman again.” This is a very sad fact. A woman is just as qualified to be in the government as a man. Why is it so hard for us then to accept that?