The battle over who is "minority" enough

I started this post awhile back before my personal life derailed for a few days and I had to get back on track. So here it is now.

A little over a week ago, I was walking to the recycle bin to drop off some documents for shredding. I have to walk across the whole office to do so, and when I do this weekly chore, I enjoy listening to the conversations of the other unit employees. I passed the desk of this rather obnoxious, loud woman. I can always hear her from my section, down a few sections. Anyway, she was just on Cloud 9 that Obama had sealed up the nomination and was telling everyone she was voting for him. Her primary reason, because a minority needed to be in the White House.

I casually asked what part of Obama's platform she liked the most, and as is typical with most Obama supporters, she could not mention anything he stood for or accomplishments he has under his belt. She was stuck on the minority thing. I then asked if it mattered if there was a "minority" as President or as Vice President, to which she replied it did not really matter, but there was only one person of minority status in the running.

I then asked what would she think if Piyush "Bobby" Jindal ran as McCain's VP selection. She did not know who that was and I said he was a minority, specifically, he was an Indian-American. She then said that was a "racist term, they are Native Americans". I heartily laughed at that and said he was Indian, as sometimes called Asian-Indian, or from the country of India.

She then said that she would still vote for Obama. I asked why, since the "minority" issue seemed to be her only requirement. Her response- because Obama is "more of a minority". I wanted to ask her what that meant, but then again, you cannot reason with most fools.