I am a boring white guy, and I am very tired of seeing so much of the world led by those who look like me, especially in the history of the US. It really is almost all that the Republican party has to offer, and they seem rather proud to ride that horse as far as it will take them. I feel very welcome and right at home as a Democrat in a diverse party, and yet I totally understand and share in the desire to have leaders who have other life views than those of all but one president and every singe vice president this country has ever had.
The experiences of a white man are very different from that of a black man, a Hispanic man, an Asian man, an American Indian, or a woman of any of these ethnicities or others, not to mention the life lessons that sexual orientation and identity bring to the table. THAT is the diversity I seek in leadership here, now, in 2016. The diversity of those experiences. You can't separate that diversity from the physical and innate attributes that cause our society to react in a manner as to make those lives be lived so differently from the outset.
This isn't anti-white man. It is pro-diversity, including white men. But please don't argue that white man haven't had a giant head start on leading this country. Again, I am one.
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