Lookie He’r – We in da driven seats naw!!!

As the week begins to come to a close, I am happy to say that I no longer get phone calls just as I sit down with my family for dinner.  I have to say, my candidate did win. For some reason I found myself leaning more towards him than the other candidate. I felt I had to pick the lessor of two evils – I believe that the clincher for me was the fact that McCain made a very bad decision – we chose a president based on the information that is given us – unfortunately for Mr. McCain we have been given a lot of negative  information about him through the media. Now, what I found was that McCain had to make a very big decision – a very important decision – who will be the Vice President of the United States in the event he wins the election – he decided to select a person who is an outsider – I applaud him for that – however, he picked someone so far from the outside that it appeared he did not want to win the election in the first place.

I have nothing against Sarah Palin – hell, I was hoping that she would stick around long enough for Tina Fey to come back to SNL…but, from my perspective, McCain decided that Ms. Palin would be the right person to take over for him under any circumstance, be it death, illness, broken bone, anythhing – he chose her – and I am stressing the “HER” part. He was hoping to bank on the women’s momentum going into the election. He witnessed how disheartened Hillary Clinton supporters were when she lost the primary and thought that he could slide a woman in there and the women of America would take her as a fill-in for Hillary…this was a major blunder on his part…I am sorry. I believe that had McCain picked a more reliable running-mate – one with more experience than winning beauty contests – he would have had no problem winning the election…I know that I would have voted for him.

What gets me are all of the African-Americans who are all of the sudden thinking that because they have a Black man going into the White House things are going to be different for them…I heard of a driver, who is black and the owner of the truck, who is white, getting into the passenger seat of the truck and expected the owner to drive him around. All the driver said to his boss was, “No, No. Today you are driving because we are in charge now.” Ain’t that some shit? I witnessed a black man trying to get a free donut from Yum Yum Donuts -  when the cashier told him the price he just pointed to the newspaper on the counter and said, “I don’t think I will be paying for this today or tomorrow or the next day. You see, we have one of our own in the White House now.” You got to be kidding me.

You really want to know what is funny? Obama is a true, African-American…he is no more blacker than I am – hell, I probably know more black people than he knows…I know I went to school with more black people than he did. The black people of America are starting to rise up and shout as if they are in church – “Dat’s right! Dat’s right! We gotsa a brotha up in da office naw! Dat’s right! Lookie he’r! Dees cracker ass crackers doe not know was ’bout to hit ‘em! Da powar of da black man has done taken over he’r.”

I just find it funny – that’s all. What strikes me as crazy is that everyone expects these changes to happen overnight. We are already hearing about transition teams and Obama’s cabinet – come on people, it is going to take a lot more time than a week…some people are expecting reparation checks the first week of February. Well, I had a conversation with some highly educated people about this very issue. I know they are highly educated because I am one of the educators who educated them…anyway, we were discussing the major issues that they are facing today and how they expected Obama to address those issues. Then I had them read John F. Kennedy’s inaugural speech, January 20, 1961.

I had them read it out loud so that those who were listening could feel the full effects of Kennebunkport, Maine. I had them read the speech without the “r”s so that we could feel the crisp, winter, wind ripping through our bones. I had them read it as if there were not microphones in the class (there really are no microphones, but I don’t tell them that) so that the people who are sitting the cheap seats can hear them…I had them read it as if it were Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech. And then I asked them this very simple question: “Could any one of the candidates have given this speech today and keep its same meaning?” I go some heads that nodded…it was the end of the day. Then I asked, “Do any of the issues they were facing then reflect any of the issues we are facing today?” I got more heads nodding. Then I asked, “Could you see any candidate give this speech and persuade you to think that things would actually get done?” I got a lot of heads nodding then. And then I asked, “Why?” and the response I got was amazing – it made me feel like I have had some impact on them – their answers were resounding and clearly thought out…some of them even paused to relish in their accomplishment of a great answer – “Because if you thought that it would not have a better impact on us if Obama read it versus McCain reading it then you would not have made us read it four times and kept asking us if it still applied today.” I almost cried…it is like I have shown them their wings and told them to fly.  http://www.bartleby.com/124/pres56.html

They said, that Kennedy was pretty much like Obama – except for the African part, the rich kid part, the knowing who his father is part, the not drinking and laughing at Uncle Ted part – but the part that we were at a crossroads and that someone had to stand up and say that things really do need to change – Imagine President Bush – his administration and his 8 years in office have been so bad and riddled with strife that we wanted a change so bad that we elected a black man – hell, an illegal alien could have won the election just to get Bush out…

Things will change – maybe the KKK will rise up again and take back the country like it did with the south…maybe Obama will do a good enough job that we elect him again in four years. Maybe he will screw up everything so bad that we need a person who is capable of winning an Alaskan Beauty Pageant to come in and say, “I told ya’ll that you shudda voted for me las time…now who here wants some stew? Oh, Look, if you look really close you can see the Kremlin from the upstairs bedroom if you can get Bristol and Levi out of there. Those kids are always playing house.”

Well, I for one is not too upset with the results of the presidential election – I am offended that the people of California are so shut-in that they feel they should decide how a person should spend their lives…Proposition 8 should have failed. It does not bother anyone except for the people who are trying to find love and happiness – who are we to tell someone else that our opinions are better so they should be law? I am sorry – it just bothers me that my next door neighbor put up a sign that says, “Yes on 8. Save Marriage” This is the same Chinese guy who is going through a divorce for the third time…go figure…no that is inappropriate if I have ever seen it. Sleep well. Nachos and applesauce.