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Dr. Ron Koretz Corner

Think About It
Ron Koretz, P.M.


According to virtually all of the media outlets, history was made in the November election when, for the first time, an African American was elected to be the President of the United States. This was widely hailed as the shattering of a previously-conceived impossibility. It was a message to the world about the values that America believes in and practices and a lesson about the worthiness of our political system.

I believe that hundreds of millions of Americans, regardless of their political persuasion, were proud of their country that evening, at least in this respect. I listened to commentators (liberal and conservatives) talk for hours about the implications of the election. In fact, several days later, newspapers that had been published on the morning after the election were reprinted because souvenir hunters wanted copies of the sold-out editions.

While I do not, in any way, want to make light of this event, as I watched all of the hoopla, I had a different thought. Let me try to frame it with the following questions:
1. Was this a victory by people with black hair over those with white (or perhaps more politically correct, silver) hair?

2. Should we be proud because a left-handed man became president? (Of course, in case you did not know, both men running for president were left-handed.)

My point is that nobody really paid any attention to either of these factors. Our society has so completely accepted different (or even absent) hair color or handedness that nobody notices it. This is what an ideal unprejudiced society is.


To a great degree, we are getting there. Women as well as African-Americans, Hispanics, and people from a variety of other ethnic groups, are commonly finding their ways to leadership positions in business and politics. When they show up for news interviews or speeches, most of us listen and watch to be educated, or at least to be exposed to their opinions, not to be amazed by their genetics. From my perspective, a real colorblind society would elect, as president, the first person of a previously unrepresented gender or ethnic background and nobody would notice it.

Think about it.

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