Please, Stop It With The “Race Card”

Via my “feeds” I just saw this headline…”Poll: More Americans think US ready for black president“.

Man, it really irks me to all ends when people pull out the “race card” as if that has any bearing on a persons’ qualifications for a task, job or position. I won’t waste my breath on why that is just a poor angle to take, but will simply say that your race (or sex for that matter) doesn’t influence my decision one bit about whether I’d hire you, vote for you or simply support you.

The “media” seriously needs to stop harping on this sort of thing and focus on what really matters. The 1960’s are long gone and the times have changed. In my eyes and from my own experience, Martin Luther King, Jr’s. dream has came to fruition. But this is coming from a white male who grew up in the “inner city” of Indianapolis and was in the racial minority of his fellow classmates growing up. Maybe that sort of experience would do other people a bit of good. Maybe someday the rest of the population will come to their senses and judge people by their qualifications and the content of their character.

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