State of the Union: A Non-Black-and-White Affair

First and foremost, If you are an angry person looking for a debate I suggest that you take your anger elsewhere, count to ten...or better yet..count to infinity..a few times, and then come back to read this..or...just don't read it. Several more reasons for which one should go away follow: 1) If you are already assuming that because I am a white man writing about the current political situation, that I am a racist and I hate all black people. 2) You are planning to skim over this post while spending most of your time thinking of the witty, rude, mean, or unnecessary comment you will leave afterward. 3) You would like to leave any comment of any sort after reading this. I simply won't be reading them due to the people that will ignore the prerequisites and undoubtably call me a racist or try to "educate me in my painfully obvious lack of knowledge".
When was the last time you saw people singing, crying and/or dancing in the street all with the absence of some traditional celebratory title slapped over the event such as Mardi Gras or New Years Eve? I believe that regardless of whether or not you can answer my question, you may be hard pressed to snap back with an event such as a presidential election. I know little of American History as I have only lived twenty one years of it and those few years have been dedicated solely to mathematics and physics. Although, if I were to make an educated guess I would say that this was the first time in American history that the news footage of the confirmation of a president elect could be mistaken with a New Years Eve celebration. Moreover, this was not a case solely in this country. News footage from all over the planet showed multitudes of people from all countries who seemed to have simultaneously all won both the lottery and Olympic games at the same time. My concern with this is that the people of this great country are quickly becoming sheep. Sheep that are made of a sponge-like material that will soak up exactly what it is they want to hear and wring out whatever they don't. If you don't like being compared to a sheep, then you can be cattle. Willing to follow into a dangerous stampede that could possibly lead you right off of a cliff or into a raging river. Regardless of what you want to be compared to its going to be livestock and its going to be stupid. I am going to make this clear immediately following that statement: I am not, REPEAT, AM NOT calling anyone who voted for Barrack Obama sheep, cattle, or stupid. I am, however calling anyone, of any ethnicity, of any social status, who voted for Barrack Obama, or didn't vote for Barrack Obama, solely based on his skin color, an idiot. I will undoubtedly never understand why the color of our president elect's skin is more important than other other trait, quality, belief, or mindset he may have. I have sat quietly and listened to the verbal exchanges between those of so called "strong beliefs" in either direction and it tends to make me want to hurl. I have heard many an idiot call President-elect Obama a terrorist, a Muslim, the Anti-Christ(really?), have heard his intellect questioned and his beliefs tarnished. Since this is the great free country that it is these things can be freely spoken without any reprimand. However, I can still call you an idiot because the majority of the people speaking these words have no clue who or what they are talking about. The majority of these people are in the same boat as I am politically...meaning they know absolutely nothing about politics besides what they hear on the news..which is also nothing. From my scratching of the surface of mathematics I have been able to come away with the relation that nothing...plus nothing...is still...nothing. I have learned from listening to many people speaking from the wrong end of their body that when one knows nothing of a subject, one shouldn't speak on said subject. If I were the dean of the school of engineering that I attend, I wouldn't hire a veterinarian to come speak to a graduating class about what to expect in the field of engineering. Sure the vet is likely to be well educated, witty, might have a really good opening joke, could have a very motivational theme, great posture, dashing good looks and a lengthly list of positive qualities. However, this person doubtfully knows anything at all about the engineering field. You may be thinking that it is blatantly obvious that a person of absolutely no knowledge on a subject would not be asked to demonstrate their views, or, most likely, lack thereof, on some certain subject, especially to such a large audience. However, many people recently, a great deal of whom fall into my demographic, attempted to voice their one sided, and painfully uneducated agenda to their piers. This country was built around the democratic process and I am proud to be an American citizen under such a (seemingly) working process, but the reason I do not delve into the world of politics is crudely simple. It is not a pretty place. A great number of the politicians who want to be elected lie, cheat, and steal to gain a platform and their followers (usually of the livestock mold) talk with such assurance of two things that they most likely know nothing about: The greatness of the person they are supporting and the terrible nature of the opponent. People hear some wild accusation thats been spun so wildly by the media, cling to it, and proclaim it to others as if it was written in stone by God. During a rally a few weeks back a woman summoned Senator McCain to her and spoke into the microphone that she was afraid of President-elect Obama because he is a Muslim. Speechless, Senator McCain desperately tried to refute the comment and defend his opponent. This is not a praise of Senator McCain or of President-elect Obama for their niceties displayed in public for their opponent, which I frankly don't care about in the first place. These two men could hate the very soul of the other and that would make no difference to me. The point is that idiotic remarks like these are so prevalent in our society, especially during election years, that it has almost become a joke. These people have comedian/news anchors like John Stewart and Stephen Colbert licking their lips in anticipation to poke fun at their idiocy. My point is also not that any of these so called facts are true or untrue because, frankly, I still don't care. My argument is with the way the public has handled this election year. The now-liberal media has portrayed the current president as the stupidest, most under-qualified person on the planet and people who would probably do worse on a math test than President Bush eat it up and spit it back out to their piers. If I had to guess, many of these people know hardly anything about politics or of President Bush. For the past few months I have heard every little bit of negative media spewn from the lips of ignorant sheep about both Senators McCain and Obama that I would ever want to hear in ten lifetimes. Another frustration I have is the extensive use of the phrase "our people" that I have heard uttered repeatedly since Tuesday. The central theme I have gathered from any black person who has spoken positively about President-elect Obama's election this week has been something along the lines of a proud, dynamic, great, (insert generic positive word) time for "OUR PEOPLE" as if black people are of some other species than the other ethnicities that live in this country. The election of President-elect Obama is not a victory for black people, it is a victory for American people and a celebration of the power of the democratic process. To strive for equality and rise from under the oppression of ignorant tyrants, only to be shoved backward by bitter racism, persevering every hardship that came with it, and fighting to the present position with every tooth and nail, to claim the election of the first black president a sole victory for black people is a disgrace to all the work that has been done to bring the certain justifiable equality to an ethnicity of human beings that is no different than any other except through skin color. If I were to say in four years after the hypothetical election of a white president that it was a proud time for "our people" I would be thought of as a lunatic and a racist. This is not at all to say that the election of our nation's first black president is not an epic event of astounding historical value. But, due to some, this event is tainted by the ever-present race card. This may be confusing to some...Barrack Obama's ethnicity is dynamic and historically relevant, but is tainted by the race card? This is true due to those of any ethnicity who base this relevance solely on ethnicity and nothing else. I am proud to live in a country that has elected its first black president, but I am disappointed in those who place priority on skin color and fail to see anything else. This is just as much racism and bigotry as anything else. And although it may be in jest, the joke that black people can now do whatever they please due to the election of a black president is rarely comical. Just as the wildly inappropriate jokes about potential assassination attempts on the President-elect due to his skin color are extraordinarily not funny. It is extremely difficult for any one person to get over their racial barriers and biases. I am not claiming that I am free of these. But there is a reason I keep my two cents out of politics. Not only because I do not know, but because I do not care. I am not recommending anyone adopt the same callous views on politics that I have, but merely to: shut up, listen, make sound decisions based on things you can be sure of, be learned about whoever it is you want to vote for, be kind and treat those who may not have the same political beliefs as you as a fellow human being, not as a disgusting villain from another planet, and most of all, don't talk to me about it because I do not care. Although I probably would not agree with President-elect Obama on many topics I will proudly stand behind my future president, not as the first black president of the United States, but as the forty-fourth president of the United States. My uncaring attitude toward the political spectrum of our country does not impede me from being a patriot, I merely hold more interest in things that I feel hold greater importance. There will always be the need for bridges, channels, dams, buildings, railways, subways, and other structures and erections as well as many other engineering advancements, whether their is a politician to sign the papers or not. Moreover the Kingdom that holds the most of my attention belongs to God. He is just letting us borrow this place for the time being. The fact that we want to play boss doesn't interest me much. God Bless America and God Bless Barrack Obama.