Current mood: breezy Category: News and Politics
Oaklette United Methodist Church that is. That's muh voting place. Right 'round tha coner. Anyhow, I saw some shit on the news that really opened my eyes; there's a 109 year old black lady (somewhere in the south) that is voting. 109! There was like a 50 year gap when she pretty much couldn't vote! Now she gets to vote for a 1/2 black president*. That's big man.
Is she wrong for voting for Obama cuz he's black? I mean, c'mon...she lived during a time when that shit was impossible. A time when no one ever thought it would happen. Why not vote for Obama, right? Well, then why shouldn't the rest of us black people do it? There's a ton of black people from those era's that didn't make it to this time. That lady's parents, siblings, school friends, prom date, all of them are probally dead and gone. They'll never see this (physically anyhow), but she's here reppin' them. We, as black people, need to rep all our other fallen people. Those who were lynched, those who were murdered, those who rotted in jail for shit they didnt do, those who died in the feilds during slavery, those who died on the ships on the way over here.
I don't think Obama or McCain are any different from our past presidents. Not really. They try to make it seem like they can change shit. They are fucking politicians**! That's it people! But this vote for Obama is symbollic. For god sakes, he could be the first black president! He probally wont do too much, but he'll be in there!
So black people, get the dick outcha throat and go vote.
"Give a damn, y'all..."-Sly Stone
*Yea, people forget that Obama is half white. Both sides forget. We can have a real party when a "full" black pres. gets in. Obama is just a symbol of what may be able to happen.*
**And Obama is just a politican. So he's really no different in terms of merit, honesty and whathaveyou.**
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