This campaign is not about race nor is it about gender.

Today's Meet the Press segment on NBC has everybody talking about Clinton and Obama. The drama stems from a quote Clinton said, "Dr. King's dream began to be realized when President Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act of '64." She goes on further to say, "It took a President to get it done".

This was translated by the public/Obama supporters/Obama's camp as the Senator saying that it took a white president to really change the civil rights at the time, despite Dr.King's dream.

Of course in a close competition there is going to quite a bit of he said, she saids, but lets be more mature like voting citizens should be shall we? Taken out of context the quote can be seen as highly offensive. But the quote was not meant to be about race. After all, is she not a minority herself?

So to be fair to Clinton, Obama, and the rest of the candidates - let us put race and gender aside and focus on experience, values, and their plans for our issues.

"I don't think either of us want to inject race or gender in this campaign. We are running as individuals, we are making our cases to the American people, and it's imperative that we get the record and the facts straight because people are entitled to have that information.-Senator Hillary Clinton.

-Sophia