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Augiedog

(2,548 posts)
Thu Mar 5, 2020, 09:41 PM Mar 2020

My wife commented this morning, saying that we started out with an extremely diverse set of

presidential candidates. Young and old(er), racially mixed, male and female, well to do and not so well to do....and we end up with two old white guys.....weird.

I should mention, I’m an old white guy...so I’m hoping that’s still ok with her, but I get her point.

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My wife commented this morning, saying that we started out with an extremely diverse set of (Original Post) Augiedog Mar 2020 OP
Probably this post belongs in primaries? cwydro Mar 2020 #1
To a lot of people Bettie Mar 2020 #2
Said the same to my wife this morning Sherman A1 Mar 2020 #3
According to what I know, we have ethnic diversity. Since there's only one "race" (the human abqtommy Mar 2020 #4

Bettie

(16,110 posts)
2. To a lot of people
Thu Mar 5, 2020, 09:44 PM
Mar 2020

only old white men are good enough to be president.

Even the worst of the old white men will be elected long before women. We can see that in what roosts in the white house.

abqtommy

(14,118 posts)
4. According to what I know, we have ethnic diversity. Since there's only one "race" (the human
Thu Mar 5, 2020, 10:12 PM
Mar 2020

race) then most uses of the word "race" and it's derivatives is done in error. Please tell your friends.
We can fix this and start a new trend...

Otherwise you make a good point that we should consider. We can do so much better in many ways.

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