Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Race, Gender & Opposition: response

This is a really, really hard topic for me to provide a thorough answer to. I don't read the newspaper nearly enough, so I would be hard pressed to say what President Obama's health care reform policy even was, much less why people were protesting it. I'm not going to try and pretend that I know something I don't. It seems to me that the prompt is implying that there is a faction that are opposed to his health care reform based on his race. This frankly doesn't surprise me. There will always be people who will disagree with a person solely based on race.
So, no: I don't think we would notice any difference in opposition if Hillary were president, assuming that people were opposed to Obama's reform because of racism. In an ideal world, most people would either support or oppose Clinton's proposed health care reform because they had done some research on the subject. Naturally, there would be people who would disagree solely because she's a woman. However, I really don't see how the situation would be any different. And if race isn't playing a part in the decisions on Obama's health care, then I doubt gender would play a part in Clinton's either.
As for my own opinion on the subject, I really don't have one. I know very little about it and refuse to view Obama's planned reform as a good thing just because I'm a Democrat and I voted for him. I honestly wish more people would confess ignorance rather than voting or not voting for something for the wrong reasons.