Rebuttal: Affirmative Action, Part 2

The Snapper: Millersville University
By Chester Holland on April 4, 2010

Another “popular” idea that shows just how much people want to forget our country’s history and tendency toward highlighting the physical, mental, racial or gender differences, or using those differences to establish and maintain a social hierarchy, is the product of the “Barack Obama Effect,” which has lead a surprising number of American whites to believe that hundreds of years of social injustice and racial prejudice are somehow corrected now that we have a black president. I’m going to spell this out for you.
First, the black population did NOT get Obama elected. Unless you were living under a rock between January of 2001 and November of 2008, you are probably aware that Obama’s predecessor, George W. Bush, was perhaps (if not literally) the worst president in our nation’s history, so when election time rolled around, the electorate was making every effort to get him and a good percentage of his fellow Republicans out of Washington.
November 2008, as the result of perceived incompetence by conservatives, ended up becoming a critical election, or an election that shifted majority power to the Democratic Party. The point is, that even if Hilary Clinton had won the Democratic Party’s nomination as the party’s presidential candidate, chances were very strong that a Republican would not be the president in 2008.
I’m also of the opinion that Americans wouldn’t be so quick to believe that sexism died in America if Hilary Clinton would have been elected president.

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