With all the post election discussions going on, it seems we cannot get away from it. Every time the television is switched on, or every time you click that Twitter app on your phone, there is no escaping it. What has struck me as something of an epidemic, is the racism that the President is experiencing from the ignorance of many people, not only in America but world wide. Racist tweets, racial slurs and other disgusting forms of uninformed opinions. In the words of Bill Maher, “White people vote for White people like it’s going out of fashion.” It’s true, but President Obama only got the White vote when running for the senate, against another Black candidate. My passion is politics, but more than that, watching the opinions of others. there is no place for me to start when describing peoples opinions, other than exactly that. They are opinions and not the gospel. That seems to be a condition we have forgotten. Everyone today realizes the heightened forms of election tools such as social media. All I have to do is type my user name and password for Facebook and Twitter and I see these political attacks and ideas that seem to have been formed from the bedroom of an adolescent teenager.

The disturbing part of the entire process of the election is the idea that the President has to put up with this blatant disregard for who he is, the most powerful man in the world. With huge issues like gay marriage, foreign policy and taxation being questioned, why is the focus on the idea of our President being Black? Four years on and we are still fighting a war that should of never started in the first place. He is the right man for the job and it’s a simple as that. He takes the attacks from people throughout the world and brushes them off, something i’m not sure the average person could do. Surely this helps assert that he is the right man for the job.

Something that is very prevalent is the idea of the separation of “them” and “us” and by that I am referring to the division of parties. Republican and Democrats. This is what it boils down to. Everyone today believes they are up on politics because they follow Mitt Romney on Twitter. Wrong. That isn’t being up to date on politics, that is believing in hear say for the most part. Being up to date on politics is staying informed. Watching and reading opinions that don’t attribute to the propaganda that we are subject to. Journalism today is slanted, that part is clear. You watch Fox News for Republican updates and CNN for Democrat updates. Being that I graduated with a degree in Journalism and Political Science, I had my fair share in the classic discussion of which party is better, but the issue of which party is better is not as simple as us standing there getting into a heated discusion. It’s backing up your claims with non-biased informative information.

Racism, a very demanding issue in America, seems to be the fall back for most intellectuals arguments. With quotes from major movie stars such as Samuel L. Jackson, “yes, I voted for him because he is black” referring to President Barrack Obama on Bill Maher’s show. This worries me. As Samuel L. Jackson sat fairly quietly on the show, it became clear that all he was doing was agreeing with the opinions on the show. There is no fact checking from celebrities today, and these are the people we follow on Twitter.

How can we move forward, it’s 2012 and with racism still being aimed towards our President where do we go from here. Our President has done the best he can, he walked into a very difficult job. Would the same concerns and questions be raised if we had a white Mormon President. I think not. My opinion doesn’t matter and in the grand scheme of things it never will, but what about my children, and their children. It will matter then. I am lucky enough to see a man get elected into a position of power because he was the right man. I voted because I did my homework, I kept up to date on both sides, but with that I hated some of the things I saw online, on the television, and what bothers me even more that these are grown people asserting views that are ludicrous Donald Trump confronting our President was just disrespectful, Sarah Palin making racial slurs should have left me dumb founded, but I expected it, and that’s the sad part.

Watch the following video and make your own opinion on this rant.

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