That's why Tea Partiers are screaming, "We want our country back." But they really want President Obama out of the office. I don't think many people would like to turn back the times 100 years.
It's strange how we grow accustom to certain things while other things become ancient. No one really wants to sport a 'stauche and if you do, people assume things about you.
And like they say, you should never assume anything because you make an ass out of u and me.
That being said, it's going on every day now. I look at the whole uproar over Caitlyn Jenner. Yes, for some, it's hard to believe that young Olympiad who won people's hearts and minds is a woman. Even worse is that people are accepting it. Some people would be glad if everyone just laughed Jenner off the stage and made derogatory comments about her.
But transsexuals have been around for years, decades from Christin0e Jorgensen to Chaz Bono to Caitlyn Jenner.
If you don't know, Jorgensen pictured below was one of the first transsexuals to go public during the 1950s when married couples weren't even shown on television in bed together.
There are people who will never like Jorgensen, Jenner or Bono for their sex change operations but there's people who haven't accepted that Marisa Tomei won an Oscar.
Speaking of the Presidency, we've never had a female President, while other nations have had females in high positions. England had Margaret Thatcher and now Germany has Angela Merkel as their Chancellor.
Hillary Clinton is still called a bitch for being a woman in power. It's been years since Linda Hamilton kicked butt in Terminator 2, but she is still referenced whenever women fight back in movies.
That's why some people don't agree with Candice Cameron Brue on her submissive marriage. Some women might want their husband to take lead, but it doesn't mean Brue is wrong and others are right or vice versa. But we should accept it's different strokes for different folks.
But yet, no one does that. It's a "My way or the highway" situation.
Take Beyonce. It seems to some people I know, Beyonce could screw up a cup of coffee. They don't like her and I know why they don't. It's because she's black.
Take when she sang the National Anthem during the 2013 Presidential inauguration. Did she lip sync? Who cares? No one would if it was a white singer.
There are just people who can't handle black people or women doing anything that normally white people and or men do.
And if it's black people, they have to be "safe black people," like what people thought Bill Cosby was. I mean, one of the reason Will Smith has been accepted by middle America is because his rap is very family-friendly. Ice Cube may have used profanity in his music. But now, he's appearing in family movies like Eddie Murphy, who hasn't appeared in an R-rated movie.
I mean, look at this picture of Ice Cube:
Nothing about this picture makes people think he is a thug. No, he's a very nice guy here. But Ice Cube would be labeled as "one of the good ones," still.
And even though he isn't doing gangsta rap but appearing in comedies with Jonah Hill and Kevin Hart, he is still having to do more than other musicians turned actors in the court of public opinion. But some people just don't care.
Growing up, it was almost unheard of seeing black people in a commercial pictured as the all-American family. Now, you see it all the time. Well, not all the time, but more than average. There are on AT&T commercials or on travel commercials for the perfect getaway.
But still the Cheerio's commercial with an interracial couple raised eyebrows, which is odd because interracial couples are very common now. Still, you won't find many movies or TV shows picturing an interracial couple without making it very essential to the plot.
And the argument I hear from people is there tired of seeing gay people, like Ellen DeGeneres, on TV, even though Ellen doesn't push her agenda every show. She's a talk show host and she acts like all the other talk show hosts.
Imagine for one minute how gay people have always felt seeing only straight couples portrayed in movies and on TV or how black people or Hispanics and Latinos have felt just seeing white people and families portrayed positively on TV and movies for decades.
In 1995 when The Indian and the Cupboard was released, it was considered progressive that Rishi Bhat played the protagonist's best friend. Bhat is an American of India decent. It would have been progressive is Bhat had played the protagonist.
But one day, we may have people who challenge the status quo more and more to the point that's not an issue anymore. Seeing Denzel Washington and Julia Roberts in a movie where they are romantically involved won't be as big of an issue as it was in 1993. I mean, it's Denzel and Julia. They could've been playing Ozzie and Harriet and no one would've care.
Well, one person probably, but people like that live to make a problem about things. And I wouldn't want them to accept something they don't agree with. But they shouldn't be cutting the nose to spite the face.
No one says you have to watch a movie, listen to a performer and DVR has given us the ability to skip ahead through commercials.
We shouldn't care about these things. It's 2015. But we still do.
We have more important things to care about and if we want to leave the world a better place for our children and grandchildren, the first step is by showing them that we don't worry about things that are trivial like who is gay and who is straight.
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