Last year at this time we had just elected a new president. There was a lot of talk of people voting for him simply because he was black. A lot of us, myself included, believed that the election results had more to do with being fed up with the direction the government had taken with the Republican party, and maybe that was part of it.

Obama was our first black president, it’s an amazing accomplishment for our country. It really was inspiring. A very significant color barrier had finally been broken. Unfortunately, last Tuesday may have been an indicator that color really was, at least in some voters minds what the election was about.

Maybe it’s the new disillusionment with the wild goverment spending, interference and broken promises of the democrats. Maybe it’s just that traditionally, local and state races see a lower turnout. But what actually happened, was that many of the new black and hispanic voters did not show up at the polls last Tuesday. If our newest President was elected simply because he was black,( and by the way, he is half-white also) how meaningful is that amazing accomplishment of ours?

It’s an embarresment, to our country, to our president, and to our children and it’s racism. A vote should mean something more then you approve or disapprove of a canidates skin tone, or their gender (the one we still haven’t managed to break). It should mean that the person who is elected represents your views, at least as much as possible. I wonder now that things are going badly, will many suddenly consider him white.