Only the 110th US congress could elect their first ever woman Speaker?
By anonvenu
@anonvenu (401)
India
January 9, 2007 11:28pm CST
Women are finally getting somewhere in American politics. It took so many years for a woman to get to the speaker's post, I wonder how long it will take for a woman to get to the governor's or the president's office?
Also it makes me wonder, will any black person become a governor or the President of the United States.
Please comment.
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@Lydia1901 (16351)
• United States
12 Jan 07
Yeah, it's really nice that women are finally being recognized in the politics and I hope pretty soon they'll be a woman as a president. But, I doubt they'll be a black person as a president. It'll take a long time before that happens. I don't want to sound racist or anything because I'm black and I know how that works out for us in the USA.
@anonvenu (401)
• India
16 Jan 07
You know Lydia, when I visited USA for the first time I was under the impression that in US everybody is equal. I realized very soon that it is not true, some are more equal then others :)
I could sense that difference with which Blacks, Hispanics, Chinese and Indians are treated.
Don't get me wrong, America is a great nation where a hard working person can make it big, it is a nation which is quite different, where performance is rewarded justly. But it does not always follow every thing it preaches the rest of the world.
