History Making...50 years late

Last night I could not avoid watching the results of the American election. I was sucked into all the media hype but also very disgusted wih the frivality of what was being covered. Come on...Sarah Palin's clothes, Barak Obama's barber...who cares.

Anyways, like many people out there both in America and Canada I am glad that Barak Obama won. I think that he will be progressive and make some substantial changes to American politics. However, what strikes me is that there was so much focus on him being the first black president, instead of him being an extraordinary human being capable of many things. It makes me sad that in this day and age, colour is still is a factor. We still view the world in terms groupings and not as human beings regardless of what we look like. Which leads me to say that it has taken much too long for the US to choose a President who is not a white upper class male. No matter how far we think we have come, we have so much further to go.