Lifeisannoying’s Weblog

 well, it’s about this years exciting american election. Now i am being absolutely honest, i do not know about the policies (in great detail that is) of any of the candidates, left or right wing. I have not studied them like i had studied the politician that i voted for in the last election here in England.  What i have noticed is the coverage.

America is an important country and will be for the  forthcoming century or so.( sorry osama bin-liner not even you could derail that, a sub-prime mortgage crisis could though). so with that in mind, i have  decided to  take an active interest in it’s policies and foreign policy.

However, what really spoilt my view of america and it’s attitudes to women especially women of ethnic minorities was  how they were portrayed. Oprah winfery is a multi- millionaire, a self made woman in all respect, yet when she decides that she wanted to endorse Barrack Obama, she was accused of voting on the basis of skin colour.

Well, lets see, Oprah winfrey, a mature woman, who has made her money through careful thought  and clever management. she has not only a sucessful television programme, radio station  and magazine, (not to mention a private school in south africa.) then the detractors claim that she hasn’t made the decision on the basis  of careful thought or consideration, but just thought she liked  his skin tone, or his hair and his frame.

When people think this they insinuate that  women of colour are simple and bovine and vote as a mass. Nobody said to famous republican female pundit Ann coulter ” say, you are a woman why are you not voting for hillary?” women of colour are often given the choice between different white male politicians, this time they (like the rest of the world regardless of colour) have the choice of a black male, a white female and a white male.  As i black woman, i must reiterate that we  have the power of independent thought and vote accordingly. we can and do make intelligent decisions,  please do not discrimate .

it’s a nasty assumption and i do not take kindly, to my sisters being insulted. We are all varied, we are tall short, medium, intelligent, average,slow,introverted, extroverted,passive, wise, humble and proud. Please never assume that we  make important decisions on the basis of flimsy similarities ( we assume   that no one else makes important decisions on the basis of flimsy similarities) we take our lives seriously and  never underestimate us however lowly we appear to you.  Especially not the Great winfrey.

 if winfrey wants Mr Obama, Obama she shall have.  if she wanted mc cain she could support him, if she wanted Clinton she could support her too! what people tried to do was  infleunce her vote (isn’t that illegal?) which is wrong in so many ways. I could not walk  up to  someone and say hey, you should not support  conservative party, you should  vote liberal democrat.  that is trouble  look at what mugabe  party goons are doing the MDC supporters, on some level that is what they attempted to  do to  oprah ( minus the brutality, starvation and degradation).