2008 Woodie Awards
Decision 2008: Black, White, Woman
Why stereotypes are so high profile this election
Jaclyn Golia
Issue date: 2/21/08 Section: News
Since when has America become so intensely divided? Where have the middle ground demographic people disappeared off too? This primary and caucus season has made it very clear that the next president will be chosen from either a white man, a black man or a white woman. We have John McCain, our POW GOP nominee and then Barak Obama and Hilary Clinton our minority Democratic front-runners.
It is beginning to seem to me that our country is becoming more and more divided on the issues and even more so divided on who we are going to elect as our next president.
From the north to the mid west to the southern states we are all culturally different inside our own boarders. Between the more moderate thinkers in the north east and the conservative southerners the primaries and caucuses in every region have never seemed so important in determining what states will support which candidates.
This, however, is the same in every election, but what makes it more controversial this time around is that all I hear around me is "there is no way I will ever vote for a black man," or "no, I will never let a woman run my country."
Are the people throwing these blunt tatements around when they are even educated on what the black-man and white woman's policies are on the economy, immigration or the war? Do they know how McCain feels about these issues or do they not even care because they would rather a republican male in office over the democrats?
I can only hope that this is a moral voting block for my fellow citizens and not some permanent campaign ignorance. We have never had this kind of issues since this is the first time that not only a black man, but also a woman are running simultaneously so it is not a total problem in seeing why this might pose a dilemma at the polls for our conservatives.
But will the conservative voter be completely opposed to voting against the Republican ticket simply because they would not want a woman in the Oval Office?
It is beginning to seem to me that our country is becoming more and more divided on the issues and even more so divided on who we are going to elect as our next president.
From the north to the mid west to the southern states we are all culturally different inside our own boarders. Between the more moderate thinkers in the north east and the conservative southerners the primaries and caucuses in every region have never seemed so important in determining what states will support which candidates.
This, however, is the same in every election, but what makes it more controversial this time around is that all I hear around me is "there is no way I will ever vote for a black man," or "no, I will never let a woman run my country."
Are the people throwing these blunt tatements around when they are even educated on what the black-man and white woman's policies are on the economy, immigration or the war? Do they know how McCain feels about these issues or do they not even care because they would rather a republican male in office over the democrats?
I can only hope that this is a moral voting block for my fellow citizens and not some permanent campaign ignorance. We have never had this kind of issues since this is the first time that not only a black man, but also a woman are running simultaneously so it is not a total problem in seeing why this might pose a dilemma at the polls for our conservatives.
But will the conservative voter be completely opposed to voting against the Republican ticket simply because they would not want a woman in the Oval Office?
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