Was it equal?

This is a random blog post, but it’s just been on my mind.. We’ve been so busy for the last decade discussing how huge it is that we had a black president (and I’m sorry to use the word huge in a sentence regarding Barack considering Trump has trademarked this into a dirty word, but I digress). But I want to look at the difference in paths it took for a black man to become president, compared to the white man that became president after him.

Barack Obama. First lets look at his education! Obama got his BA from Columbia University, an Ivy League school, in political science. After Columbia, he graduated from Harvard! He was the first African American to be an editor of Harvard Law. He served as a lawyer for a couple of years. Later, he served as a U.S. Senate representing Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and in the Illinois State Senate from 1997 to 2004.

Donald Trump: Donald Trump went to a lesser known Ivy League, Wharton School of Pennsylvania, where he studied economics. And then for many many years he never did a single political thing, other than criticizing Obama for his entire term via Twitter.

I could go on and on about Obama’s exceptional values as a father and husband and all of the plentiful ways that Trumps morally lacking lifestyle fails in comparison, but the main point I want to make is this, look at what is took for a black man to become president, and look at what it took for the 44th white man to become president.

#Tabatha