I am voting for Barack Obama, so do not try to convince me otherwise. I'm sick of folks. Seriously, some people just want to talk. The only valid argument that I've heard against him is the whole "race doesn't matter" chant (see Tavis Smiley, Cornell West), but even that's kinda...ehh...Give me all the bullshit you want to feed me about why he can't be president, but you'll never convince me that Hillary is the better candidate. Period. Smarten up. I'm probably the most feminist person that most of you know. Ninety percent of the time, I'm going to be for the woman in most situations. I just think women are generally smarter. But in this case, I wish the men of the world could experience one day as a woman in the work place and understand what that's like. Everyday is a fight as far as I'm concerned. I don't even want to imagine going to work with the type of people that are drawn to politics as Hillary Clinton. And while race is much bigger an issue, being larger and more complex, people are more sensitive to it. They tiptoe around it. They know it's wrong. Obama is living proof.
Purely based on what's been done so far, can you imagine Hillary as president? Don't tell me it's about "the issues" again, thanks. They are virtually the same candidate, they're just trying to create more differences than there actually are so people can feel like they're making a choice. If she wins, all we will see in the media is crap inferring that she's a bitch, bullshit about Bill and shit that happened in the past. Somebody on ABC I think it was, asked her yesterday if she thought she'd be able to "control" her husband. Wait, what? Have they ever asked that of any other possible-candidates spouses? I wonder?
And yea I get that Bill is such a highly public figure, so that changes things. But does it really? Bill is going to do Bill, regardless--believe that. And why shouldn't he? That's why we love him. It's intriguing. And on top of that, he has that whole "I'm not even cute, but still dead sexy" thing going. It's sooo distracting. And when you think about it in terms of her candidacy and them both being two very strong-willed individuals. It's like how does this really operate behind closed doors? We know they're in cahoots together and that Bill has never been "out of control" like they portray him to be. But you can't just take him out of the equation. The question then becomes should we have to though?
That's a whole 'nother subject but the point is: nobody's gonna give a crap about her agenda. PLEASE, spare me.
I'm not saying it can't be done, but it will be a challenge. One far more difficult than the one Obama would have ahead of him. And besides that, he's just such an inspiration. He makes people believe shit that most of us hadn't thought was even possible. Imagine what type of power he could potentially have if all goes well. Imagine the possibilities.
People are such scared little sheep. It never ceases to amaze me the depth of the campaigns that the media has actually used to convince a sizable amount of black people that Hillary is thinking about their black asses more than Obama is. Girl bye. I'm not voting for him JUST because he's black, but ask yourself are you NOT voting for him because he is? Sad!
I totally get the whole "I don't talk about politics or religion" thing that people say now, because I'm at a breaking point. I can't cope. I feel so totally repulsed by black people who help create arguments against Obama. So I'm just not speaking on it anymore in conversation. I'll just berate all of you here and remain ignorant to those who actually agree with these amazingly well-concocted baseless arguments.
An LJ friend read my mind:
Dear Coloreds,
I was a hard nut to crack, but I imagine it was inevitable.
I quit black people.
It is over.
It was a tumultous love affair at best anyway and in my old age I am more enamored with a more sedate, satisfying love.
I got up this morning and heard Tom Joyner for the first time in about a year. His take on the debate? That Barack's got the black vote but he can't win the white vote with all that yelling he did last night.
Wait? I thought the problem was that he had too much of the white vote and needs to earn the black vote?
And then I hear their interview with Bill Clinton from a week or so go where they let him run their damn show and tell black America how we should think and vote. Not one of them asked him a substantive question. Not one of them opened their fucking mouths as he chastised the media for not attacking Obama's hopeful politics. Not one of them.
I get it. Bill has been good to them. He gave them unfettered access to his white house and so now he gets to call in his favors. Strange bedfellows this thing makes of niccas and media whores and political dynasties.
But you know what? I'm through. A guy called in to the show and gave them the what for I would have given them. he told them they'd drunk the first black president kool-aid and they are holding this black man to a different/higher standard simply because he is black.
Then there are self-proclaimed revolutionaries around here talking about how a black president actually sets back the cause of...what, exactly I'm not sure, but the logic being anything that can be construed as progress undermines some "movement". Cause, um, progress wouldn't be the aim of any "movement"? Or something like that.
If that's not self loathing and racism then i don't know what is.
You've broken my heart enough. A girl has to think self-preservation.
So niccas win. I'm through. Y'all win. You right. We ain't never going to have a black president - to prove yourselves right you better make sure it never happens.
Go ahead. I'ma practice my yoga and wait for the karma wheel to come rolling back around.
I just hope massa is as good to y'all as you seem to remember him being. It's a different world now. But, hey, as long as Bill plays the sax and Hillary can mist a white woman's tear--I'm sure that's all that matters.
No Love Lost,
T.
________
Dear Coloreds,
I was a hard nut to crack, but I imagine it was inevitable.
I quit black people.
It is over.
It was a tumultous love affair at best anyway and in my old age I am more enamored with a more sedate, satisfying love.
I got up this morning and heard Tom Joyner for the first time in about a year. His take on the debate? That Barack's got the black vote but he can't win the white vote with all that yelling he did last night.
Wait? I thought the problem was that he had too much of the white vote and needs to earn the black vote?
And then I hear their interview with Bill Clinton from a week or so go where they let him run their damn show and tell black America how we should think and vote. Not one of them asked him a substantive question. Not one of them opened their fucking mouths as he chastised the media for not attacking Obama's hopeful politics. Not one of them.
I get it. Bill has been good to them. He gave them unfettered access to his white house and so now he gets to call in his favors. Strange bedfellows this thing makes of niccas and media whores and political dynasties.
But you know what? I'm through. A guy called in to the show and gave them the what for I would have given them. he told them they'd drunk the first black president kool-aid and they are holding this black man to a different/higher standard simply because he is black.
Then there are self-proclaimed revolutionaries around here talking about how a black president actually sets back the cause of...what, exactly I'm not sure, but the logic being anything that can be construed as progress undermines some "movement". Cause, um, progress wouldn't be the aim of any "movement"? Or something like that.
If that's not self loathing and racism then i don't know what is.
You've broken my heart enough. A girl has to think self-preservation.
So niccas win. I'm through. Y'all win. You right. We ain't never going to have a black president - to prove yourselves right you better make sure it never happens.
Go ahead. I'ma practice my yoga and wait for the karma wheel to come rolling back around.
I just hope massa is as good to y'all as you seem to remember him being. It's a different world now. But, hey, as long as Bill plays the sax and Hillary can mist a white woman's tear--I'm sure that's all that matters.
No Love Lost,
T.
________
PS If you go to http://pentdego.com/obama.aspx you can put anything on the poster above, except when you put anything pertaining to his race, it replaces it with "progress." So clever.
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