# How soon will America have a black and/or female president? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 12, 2002, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-soon-will-america-have-a-black-and-or-female-president/142233 "2002-12-12T11:24:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-soon-will-america-have-a-black-and-or-female-president/142233/21 "2002-12-12T21:20:35Z")
Well, I turn 35 in 2009 - so… 10 years? Still betting that the first “minority” president will be a white-hispanic male… in the next 25 years. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-soon-will-america-have-a-black-and-or-female-president/142233/22 "2002-12-12T21:26:23Z")
And he will be Republican. ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-soon-will-america-have-a-black-and-or-female-president/142233/23 "2002-12-12T21:47:31Z")
> [@](#): > > I agree that “poor” people don’t run for president. Why is that? Because if you have enough on the ball to run for president or high elective office, you’ve got marketable skills enough to make a comfortable living. If Dubya had been born in lesser circumstances, he’d be washing dishes at your local Red Lobster. He has nothing to market except his last name and all the money he has in his pockets. My point is that simply having sheer numbers in the population does not mean anything. White males haven’t dominated the White House just because there are more of them that vote (this may not even be true). They have dominated because they hold the most wealth. Currently, black people are still at the bottom rungs of society economically. It’s not simply a numbers game. It’s a power game. ---
**Author:** ![cuauhtemoc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecb155/32.png) [@cuauhtemoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cuauhtemoc)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-soon-will-america-have-a-black-and-or-female-president/142233/24 "2002-12-12T21:49:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cisco \* > \*\*asterion: he’s probably not “limiting” it to a black president but since blacks are the largest minority then it is highly likely that our first minority president will be black. \*\* Hispanics, not blacks, are currently the largest ethnic minority group in the U.S. [Cite](http://www.intelecard.com/features/features.asp?A_ID=198). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-soon-will-america-have-a-black-and-or-female-president/142233.md?page=1)