Last Weekly Post

In an article that was published last month, the author looked at the issues of President Obama's current term and predicted that race maybe the playing factor of Obama's re-election in 2012.

At first, the author points out that through all the effort President Obama put towards "de-racializing" his campaign, the topic always came up again in his 2008 election. Examples of this are Jeremiah Wright, who was President Obama's pastor. Even though President Obama wanted to keep his race out of the election, which he did for the most part, he has not been able to do that during his current term. Examples of this are Jimmy Carter's comments about the negative comments to Obama, Cornell West's arrested and signs stating that Obama is a socialist. That maybe the reason why this author feels like race real will be a bigger issue in 2012 than it was in 2008.

Then in the article, the author then goes onto explain how Obama was elected. In 2008, there were many first time voters, which were many African Americans, who voted for Obama because he were black. Others voted for Obama not because of his race but for his issues, and others opposed him because his race or his issues. The author then points out that no one wanted to bring up the race issue, so everyone hid behind the delusion that race does not matter. In a poll in the general election, 90 percent of Americans said that race was not an important factor in their vote, which I agree with the author, race matter to more Americans than that was portrayed. But no one wants to bring up the race issue.

Race I feel can be a determining issue in some things, and one of those things is politics. Hopefully, the United States will eventually come to a point that they can vote for someone with the better issues, rather than by someone's color. But we will see how that works out.