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In reply to the discussion: Black women become most educated group in US [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)For sure, with these educational achievements, more black people will be moving into positions of authority in future, a genie the knucklegraggers can't stuff back in the bottle. In a democracy, anyway...
After electability, I look for the individual person I believe will make the best, most competent and principled administrator for our nation. I'm an issues person myself, drawn to enthusiastic, idealistic policy wonks.
Mistrust of demagoguery, candidates who campaign on getting crowds all worked up over them as saviors, and not bothering them with a lot of detail, is the form my aversion takes.
So I voted happily for both Hillary and Obama, but for me their being our first woman and our first black man were always secondary to bringing the internal right stuff to the job. My vote would have been the same, if not my pride in these great advances for equality, if the package was white male.