The Most Important Election of Our Lifetime

I was posting on MySpace, so this blog was originally written in October.

Saturday October 4, 2008
The Most Important Election of Our Lifetime

A.) This is my first blog so go easy.

B.) I'm not a political junkie until about maybe 5 months ago so go easy.
I'd like to start off by saying that I am a proud Obama supporter. I don't know if I ever really sat and thought about the possibility of a Black person ever truly having a chance at being the President of the United States. Let's be real here, racism is not dead. Those folks who owned slaves and treated them as chattel, pumped their ideologies into their children, who did the same to their children, who continued the process. Today, maybe things aren't as clear as "Nigger, you can't sit here," but they surely aren't gone (read up about the Jena 6, listen to Don Imus' description of the RU Women's Basketball Team, see how fast White Flight happens as soon as some blacks folks move into your neighborhood, etc.) So, it's not that I believed that as a people we are not [educated, personable, forthright, poised] enough to secure the position, it's really that I believed that the rest of the country would not yield enough votes to support. That being said, in a way I was right because let's say that Barack was a white man....There would absolutely be NO competition! At this point, McCain would just be wasting campaign money even continuing on in the race! But, solely because of the color of Barack's skin are the Republicans even able to continue this buffoonery. more to come...