The idea of the general public being able to ask presidential candidates questions seems like a great idea, the only problem is there were more questions sent in than answered. So who decided what questions were asked? If you ask me, I think they should have let the general public that “plays” on YouTube decide. That way the questions that the majority of the population was concerned about would be asked, instead of random questions like, “When will African Americans be given reparations for slavery?” I don’t see how that has anything to do with our present government, I might be able to see it as a reasonable question if we were living in a time when people that had actually been slaves were still living, but they aren’t! And when a twenty-something “thug” is asking this question, it makes me wonder why?! You hear lots of rap music talking about slavery and what not, but these people that sing about it didn’t experience the horrible event… they’re just related to people that did. And if you want to look back on history, not every “white” person came over free (and I’m not talking about indentured servants, I’m talking about slaves)… people that were in debt to their government were brought over as slaves for wealthier people. Sad part is most people don’t know that aspect of history, they only know about the slavery in which the Civil War was fought over.
Now to my next issue with these YouTube Questions and Presidential Candidates, it was COMPLETELY Biased! Obviously candidates such as Hillary Clinton received more questions thus more exposure. It has me wondering who she had to pay off to have more mic time?!
Many of the candidates were talking about how we need to “tell the truth” yet they continually skated around questions, and those who didn’t?… well they probably threw themselves out of the running because somehow they pissed someone off.