Fear and Tolerance
...e emancipation proclamation and women’s suffrage we haves struggled as a nation to allow all of god’s children fulfill their dreams without some kind of pain and suffering. I think now is the time for the Colin Powell’s and the Hillary Clinton’s to go after that dream and get the same fair treatment as anyone else and not have to worry if they will be subjected to prejudice. But is 12 years long enough or to short of a time? I can honestly say that if Colin Powell ran in 2008 with the likes of John McCain we would have our first African-American in the white house. But he, Colin Powell has expressed is displeasure with the media and challengers digging up his past and putting him with his family under the microscope. He would have to get over it and go ahead with a full head of steam. They both are Republicans that are well respected by both the democratic and republican parties and they are not afraid to go against the majority when in their eyes is the right thing to do. The situation for the Democratic Party is going to have change in the next couple of years if Hillary ever wants a chance of serving in the White House as an elected official. But I have often wondered that for Powell the easy part would be getting elected. The hard part would be who to trust. The Ku Klux Klan and similar organization(s) have survived all these years because of fear. They tell their group members that this person is different from you because they are inferior to you and should be isolated or even killed. And the scary thing today is that some of these individuals have infested the normal everyday occupations and neighborhoods. For example Trent Lott, used a term and gave a speech that has wiped his nam...