I’m irritated when someone says they don’t think “we” are ready to elect a black and/or female president. That doesn’t mean anything to me. What do they mean when they say ready. I get ready to go to a meeting by getting my files together. I get ready for bed when I brush my teeth. I get ready to see a new client by reading everything I can about them, so I don’t see what they mean by “being ready to elect a black and/or female president.
Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton will get enough votes to win or they won’t. People will go to the polls or they’ll stay home. It has nothing to do with being “ready”. When are “we ready”? What has to take place. I think readiness is not the issue.
I think that term is just an excuse for ambivalence, doubt or fear of the individual making that statement. If you like Obama or Clinton, then vote for one of them. If you don’t like either one, vote for someone else, but don’t use it as an excuse and act like you’re “willing to vote for them” but you won’t because you don’t think the rest of the country is “ready”. If we always worried about that, there would be no change, and we would be voting based on second guessing who we think everyone else will vote for. Imagine if everyone thought that way.
It would be almost as bad as people who continue to complain but don’t vote. They say they don’t “trust the system”, or “voting doesn’t matter”, so they stay home, think they’re better then those of us who vote, and offer no other solution.
In the 60’s people would say that if you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. To me, if you don’t vote or don’t vote for what you believe, you are part of the problem.
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