The State of the Race

The State of the Race
The state of this Presidential race is getting very ugly. Not just with the statements and commits made be the pundits. But by the parties, the sorgates and media, also by the people. We are much better than this as Americans. We have come along way in this country. America has been though some of the most hated, Vial and Racial times any country would like to be associated with. Though this America has come to understand, tolerate and respect the value of freedom, along with Human and Civil Rights for all of us to enjoy. Now we have a historical race for the White House, This time with both parties’ having a woman in the race. The Democrats having there 1st women on a major party, that came so close to getting the nod (Thanks Sen. Hillary R. Clinton).

The GOP picking Gov. Sarah Palin as the 1st female to be place as Vice President on there ticket. And of course there is Sen. Brack Obama the1st African American to clinch a major party nomination for the office of President of the United States.

(Thanks Fredrick Douglas for being the 1st to run for Vice President 1872' with Victoria C. Woodhull as presidential canadate).

Think a white woman as the President and an African American and former slave as her choice for Vice President, fast forward; now its 136 yrs. later and it may finally happened. An African American Male & a White Male as President and Vice President.

We have to change this Racism, Hatred, Ignorance and Lack of tolerance for differences. We can not, some how let race decide the most life changing decision we may ever make in our life time. Here is a quote from a man that gave the ultimate price for us to dream this dream showing that we can all make the dream come true.

"It's a duty to be both responsible citizens and conscientious stewards of freedom and democracy." Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Also here is a short list of those that have work on that dream that “we are all created equal and hold these truths to be self evident”. We can never forget that!
Barack Obama, Shirley Chisholm, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Alan Keyes, Carol Moseley Braun, and Lenora Fulani are African Americans who have run for President of United States of America


Hillary Clinton in her 2008 run for the Democratic nomination for President of United States of America was the closest so far that any woman has come to winning the nomination of a major political party in the United States. But Clinton is not the first woman to run for President of United States of America, and not even the first to run for a major party's nomination. Here's a list of the female presidential candidates, I've been able to discover, arranged chronologically by each woman's first campaign for the office.

Victoria Woodhull :Equal Rights Party: 1872, 1892
Belva Lockwood National Equal Rights Party: 1884, 1888
Grace Allen: Surprise Party: 1940
Margaret Chase Smith :Republican Party: 1964
Charlene Mitchell :Communist Party: 1968
Shirley Chisholm :Democratic Party: 1972
Patsy Takemoto Mink: Democratic Party: 1972
Abzug :Democratic Party: 1972
Linda Osteen Jenness : Socialist Workers Party: 1972
Evelyn Reed :Socialist Workers Party: 1972
Tell us what you think and thanks to all those that have been mentioned and not mentioned it has taken us all to get here.