A storm brewing

   Yep, my guy lost. and I am bummed for the future of the nation and disappointed in its people for a whole host of reasons.

   But I am also proud. I'm proud of a system that lets the nation choose who it wants as a leader and where that leader will take the nation, and I'm proud regardless of how I feel about that destination they choose to take us as a nation too. But I also see something I don't like about this election. Something about it gives me a tingling feeling in the back of my neck about where the parties and its supporters are heading.

    And now I am going to make everyone, including myself, angry and frustrated because I am going to talk about race. It is going to make me angry because of the fact that the race topic slips into almost every aspect of my life including the accusations that my church is apparently racist or the application process of the college I would like to attend. And I am going to make everyone else mad because I am a white, Christian male that apparently has some unfair advantage over every other type of human being, and therefore everything I say about race is invalid and void. But I am going to strive toward  my argument because, well, its my opinion and you can agree or not agree at your leisure.

    The stats this election are unsettling to me. I see an election that took one more step toward parties that were incredibly dependent on rank. The incumbent President received 93% of the black vote, 73% of the Asian vote, and 70% of the Latino vote. Where at the same time, Romney received almost  70% of the white vote. I understand that an African American President is attractive, but almost exclusive black choice of Obama shows something on a different level. It shows that people are putting the color of a mans skin above choices about policy that effect the nation forever. Non-whites historically vote for progressive candidates like Obama, but never at the almost all encompassing magnitude of this election, while Republicans don't usually receive that high of a percentage of the white vote.

   The parties need to evolve in order to bring back some of the other side or we will have a bigger problem on our hands. A statistic has shown that Americans are more racist today than we were in 2008, and a party system that almost brakes at the race line will not possibly help that sad fact. People need to stop looking at Obama as the first black President and more as the 44th President in a line of, albeit imperfect, men that have fought to prosper and unite an unlikely country made of diverse people. A country that is not strengthened by the differences and cultures we bring to the table, but by the values that make us who we are.

 http://inamerica.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/26/opinion-both-parties-have-a-huge-race-problem/?iref=allsearch