Ready or Not, Here I Come!

‘Is America ready for a black president?’, the question is all over the place, infact I Googled it and got 632,000 results.  632,000 results?  Insane.    Have we as a country asked ourselves if we’re ready for yet another white president?  Do we reply to that question with “Well, George Washington was white and did pretty well.  Abraham Lincoln was also white and he did pretty well too.  And Zachary Taylor, well I’m pretty sure he was white and thats all I know about him.  So, sure let’s elect John McCain, he’s white and thats good enough for me.”  Thats plain idiocy.  The color of one’s skin does not dictate the strength of their character, the level of their intellect, or their capacity for being a great leader. We must take our leaders as they are, by their actions and their words and determine their qualifications from those terms. 

What if we raised out awareness just a small amount and instead, asked ourselves, “Is America ready for a good president?  A decent president?  A president that is a true leader?”