It's all about race

Less than a day left for the American presidential election I had to write this to gather my thoughts. I guess when I said ‘sooooooooon’ I must have only meant less than 12 hours. Blog world moves fast after all.

This election is all about race. It’s unfortunate that the issue of Barack Obama being black has never been really discussed or made 'fun' of by comedians. Hear me out here.

McCain's age, Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin's gender were talked about over and over. Bill Maher and Chris Rock two of my favourite's comedians have been hammering on about how old McCain is. As much as I enjoy their jokes I believe all these social issues are important to talk about whether it’s in a form of comedy or academic dissertation.

Whether she is even competent enough to run for a vice-presidency is another issue but Sarah Palin possibly becoming the leader of the free world is not really out of question considering all female leaders we have in the current and past political landscape. Just to name a few:

German Chancellor, Angela Merkel
Prime Minister of New Zealand, Helen Clark
Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher

Simply talking about things does not bring drastic changes but it certainly makes people more aware and I reckon that is a good start.

I'm not sure if avoiding (?) the race issue has done any good for the Obama's campaign. Maybe Americans have been a little too polite to talk about the racial issue. Please correct me if I'm wrong here. I heard that people were likely to change their votes when push comes to shove after telling pollsters that they’d vote for Obama (aka Bradley effect). Will they really? I'm really nervous to find out whether we will be celebrating the 'change' or drinking some hard liquor out of despair these coming days.

It's a good thing then the style blogphere is nothing but diversity with all different races showing their beauty in their own way.

Left to right: Jane of sea of shoes, Marian from the House of Style, and Susie from Style Bubble

Steve from Style Salvage, Thom from The Sunday Best, and Matt from Imelda

P.S. I don't know any male blogger who is black. Do you know anyone?

Update: Thanks, Susie. I found a black guy who is also a style blogger. Ian Brown. I couldn't find a decent picture of him but I really liked his post on Mad Men.