Because we live in a fallen sinful world, inequality does exist. People usually address racial inequality as being one of the curses we inherited from our ancesters. African Americans were first sent to the colonies courtesy of Dutch clipper ships around 1619 and were kept in slavary until the end of the American Civil War in about 1865. They fought a long hard road to obtain equality, however, as long as racial prejudice exists, so will inequality.

Throughout the centuries, women were considered the property of their husbands, fathers, grand fathers, uncles and even brothers. The fair sex was usually sold into the marriage state by the patriarch of the household. The male sex did not do much better. It takes two parties to make up an arranged marriage for social and economic purposes.

In England, women won the right to vote in 1910. It was not until 1920 women were alloweed to vote in the United States of America. Several cities and terrorities granted them the right to vote in local non-national elections. There is still inequality that exists on the job market. As long as employers can hire qualified women for less than they would pay men, it will exist.

When most people think of discrimination, they do not think of the the plight of the white male. For centuries in the United States of America, white males enjoyed priviledges not known to people of different ethnic backgrounds. If a white male had property, wealth, and social postion, he was very fortunate indeed. When the government instituted equal opportunity employment, it had its drawbacks. Better qualified whites were not hired in the favor of lesser qualified minorities.

In the 1900's, "Irish need not apply" used to be placed on the door of business establishments. Many business owners who came from England carried over their feud with the Irish to the new country. The Irish Catholics had a double problem: people mistakenly thought that their allegiance to the Pope of Rome would take the place of their loyalty to their homeland.

When John F. Kennedy ran for public office in 1960, he became the first Irish Catholic to become elected as president of the United States of America. Opponents failed to use his Irish Catholic roots against him.

Barak Obamba is the first African-American or Black American to run for the chief executitive office as president. There will be people who will use both his race and inexperience against him on election day. Because of his race, he will become the target of Aryan white hatred, misguided whites who still believe black Americans to be less than human will seek his life.
Regardless of which political party wins the Novemeber 2008 presidental election, the time has come for a change of direction not only in America, but in the rest of the world as well.

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