11-8-2016 Trump wins Presidency

[SteelCrysis]

If there's a woman more qualified than the current candidates, sign me up.

I will say this:

One of the things I liked about Obama's presidency was that he was a role model for a group of kids that statistically speaking have needed role models. Not as much now as days gone by, but I love how Obamma shows African American kids that they literally can be whatever they want to be in this country if they're willing to do the work.

Same would be true for Billary, although there are more women going to college now than men, so I think they may have figured this out to a greater extent than young African American men.

Obama is also proof positive the country isn't as racist as some (Ahem..Dave) seem to think it is.

In general, we've made HUGE strides in diversity in the last 40 years and I think people just need to remember that ideas, and ignorance, don't die overnight.

I will also say this: it also takes support from the powerful in society to effect permanent change. I reckon the black civil rights movement had the foundation laid for its permanent success by the actions of Presidents Roosevelt and Truman. Roosevelt broke a racist strike against black transit workers in Philadelphia in 1944, and Truman desegregated the armed forces in 1948. It took 2 years to work out the details for that and start to implement it, just in time for one of my great-uncles to head off to Korea with one of the first black units to be integrated. He was one of only 5 white people in the entire unit at one point.

Truman got elected in 1948 on a civil rights platform without the votes of the South. That right there was a powerful wake-up call to the politicians that supporting civil rights was politically achievable.