The media is pushing to elect yet another white male president

Ignore them and more seriously consider the women.

If we believed the media, we only have four serious candidates running — Bernie, Beto, Biden and Buttigieg. For brevity, let’s call them the 4 B’s. Now, if you follow this page, you already know I want none of them as president. Feel free NOT to comment about how much you love any or all of the 4 B’s. You won’t change my mind, so please just let me live.

Besides, this article isn’t about them. It’s about the media and how they’re laser focused on these four white men to the exclusion of the women running. I’m not surprised by this, considering the media is overwhelmingly controlled by men. But I’m furious that, while the white men get numerous offers for magazine covers and interviews, the women get the leftovers. What upsets me even more is the women are far better candidates than any of the men.

I’m not endorsing every woman running — far from it. I am, however, pointing out the rampant sexism and misogyny by the media in marginalizing the female candidates’ presidential bids. Maybe this will change as the primaries get closer, but I doubt it. And I don’t see many men speaking up about this obvious bias. Most are too busy trying to shove the 4 B’s down our throats. I can live without hearing another man say Kamala Harris isn’t ready or Elizabeth Warren should have run in 2016. If you’re one of these men and you’re not equally criticizing the male candidates, please have a seat.

Joe Biden is running for the third time, and he has President Obama to thank for much of the public support he’s receiving. Apparently, people don’t care about his creepy behavior around women and girls or the fact that, in the ’70s, Biden spoke out against busing:

“I think the concept of busing … that we are going to integrate people so that they all have the same access and they learn to grow up with one another and all the rest is a rejection of the whole movement of black pride, is a rejection of the entire black awareness concept where black is beautiful, black culture should be studied, and the cultural awareness of the importance of their own identity, their own individuality. And I think that’s a healthy, solid proposal,” Biden, who was 32 at the time, said.

That’s some solid white supremacist double-talk. In case you missed it, Biden is using black pride to defend his anti-busing stance. Apparently Biden had no interest in actually understanding the struggles of the black community then, and I feel confident in saying he still doesn’t understand and has little interest in learning. Just because Biden was vice president to a black president doesn’t give him a pass. He later addressed his busing stance:

In his 2007 autobiography, “Promises to Keep,” Biden described the mid-70s debate over busing as a “liberal train wreck.” Biden said that due to his position on the issue at the time some of his colleagues pulled him aside and asked “how and when ‘the racists had gotten to me.’”

Did I miss the thorough explanation of why he sided with racists or the apology to the black and brown families whose children didn’t get a shot at a better education?

Then there’s Anita Hill. Biden’s treatment of her during the Clarence Thomas hearings was disgusting. It’s still disgusting. And it took him, what, almost three decades to apologize? And even then he didn’t really apologize.

When Biden did finally call — a blatant and ill-conceived attempt at damage control in the lead up to his announcement — it was not an apology he offered. According to his own campaign, Biden “shared with her directly his regret for what she endured and his admiration for everything she has done to change the culture around sexual harassment in this country.”

The only reason he even made that call was because he was planning his third run at the presidency and knew that the Anita Hill debacle would cast a shadow over what is probably his last chance to sit in the Oval Office. I’m not interested in any candidate who refuses to acknowledge their mistakes and learn how to do better. Isn’t that how we grow as human beings?

I don’t see where any of the 4 B’s are ready for the presidency — not in the way that addresses racism and misogyny to where I’m satisfied that they’ll fight against it. They won’t. It’s not important to any of them — not at the expense of their white supporters. I know Beto has spoken about racism, but look, his record is nothing to be excited about either.

Can we stop treating the presidency like it’s an entry-level job where you learn as you go and the winner doesn’t have the power to directly affect the lives of millions of people?

Let’s not assume anyone can be president, even with an utter buffoon in office right now. The person in the Oval Office should represent everyone. We’re forgetting the world is watching with disgust as a racist misogynist fumbles through leading this nation. We deserve better, and it’s time for the media to realize this. If they won’t stop pushing the agenda that only a white man can become president in 2020, let’s ignore them. We can do our own due diligence without them because they’re certainly not doing it for us.