InkogNegro 2.0

It has been a wonderful week.

Tomorrow I will talk about it.

Today I will merely burp in contentment.

If you have been paying any attention, you will notice that Wednesdays are especially long (humpy, even) for me.

I wake up around 6-630 and get him and her and me, of course( bathed and dressed for school/day care/college.

8am finds me hanging out with Professor Cheesehead in GOVT 2305 and 9am finds me with Professor Arkansanette in HIST 1301.  Then I hit the lie-bury  and do a bit of online stuff before heading up to the plantation to put in 12 hours of service excellence only to return home and make sure everyone is happy before heading to bed only to hit the ground running at 6-630 am tomorrow.

As such, I am subjected to low volume CNN, ESPN and ESPN2 all day at work.

Today, I found myself besieged by everyones favorite hockey mom/constitutional scholar/moose killer.

After hour number 5 or 6 of the endless loops of one of her interview I finally said out loud to no one in particular:

Me: This has nothing to do with my personal ideology, but for the love of intellect can we get her off the damn TV for a little while?

Random 20something white Bartender: Iono…she IS hawt.

Me: Naw, man.  She ain’t hawt.  Pretty?  Sure.  Easy on the Eyes? sure.  HAWT?  not a chance.

R20sWB:  Yeah but shes Governor Hawt.

Me: Governor Hawt is like pygmy tall.  or idiot smart. its oxymoronic (pauses for effect)  laughs to himself Geehee ….OXY moronic.  thats not REAL hawt.

So….Leaving aside, for the moment, the substance (such that it was) of what Governor Hawt said today (all effin day) aside, Let the record reflect, once and for all what HAWT is.

/engages in mildly misogynistic objectification

^hawt^

Not Hawt. not really even lukewarm. Tepid at best.

Just so we are clear.

Any questions?

I was gonna post something…but this is >>>>anything I woulda posted.

see y’all tomorrow.

You may not be aware of this, but the Nation is dying and in distress

ARLINGTON – An American flag and the way it has been displayed is at the center of a dispute between neighbors that began after the 2008 presidential election.

Ever since 9/11, Arlington neighbors Patrick O’Toole and Sharon Garner both flew the American flag patriotically in front of their homes, until now.

In protest to the election results, O’Toole now flies a black flag above an upside down American flag.

“I just don’t think it’s American,” said Garner. “I just don’t think it’s neighborly. We have children that live in our neighborhood and I’m sure their parents have to explain to them why that flag is hanging like that.”

The flag is something Garner holds close to her heart. In fact, the American flag is painted on Garner’s birdhouse and bench.

“I love the flag,” she said. “I love what it stands for. I love the colors red, white and blue. [It] makes me feel good to display it.”

It’s a sentiment she said she thought she shared with her neighbor.

“He hangs his flag everyday, and he hangs it properly,” she said. “It’s displayed like it should be and he brings it down at dusk every day.”

But, O’Toole said there is a reason behind the act.

“The black flag is because our country is dying,” he said. “It’s never been more divided than it is right now. The upside down American flag is because the country is in distress.”

The Navy vet and history teacher is upset that the Democratic ticket took the White House.

“It is not about race and don’t ever throw the race card at me,” he said. “It’s about values. It’s about people that work hard and want to keep what they own.”

Garner said she didn’t vote for Obama either.

“The election is over,” she said. “It’s happened and we need to come together like we did in 9/11 and support each other and deal with it.”

But, O’Toole stood by his decision and said he has flown the flag since the 5th grade and didn’t make the decision in haste.

Wonder what gave him THAT idea.

Great Cover.

Great Journalist writing the cover story.

But the article?  Yawn.

Barack Obama could not run his campaign for the Presidency based on political accomplishment or on the heroic service of his youth. His record was too slight. His Democratic and Republican opponents were right: he ran largely on language, on the expression of a country’s potential and the self-expression of a complicated man who could reflect and lead that country. And a powerful thematic undercurrent of his oratory and prose was race. Not race as invoked by his predecessors in electoral politics or in the civil-rights movement, not race as an insistence on tribe or on redress; rather, Obama made his biracial ancestry a metaphor for his ambition to create a broad coalition of support, to rally Americans behind a narrative of moral and political progress. He was not its hero, but he just might be its culmination.

No.

No. No. No.

This is not the end of the damn journey.

No, it isn’t the beginning, but it damn sure ain’t the end.

It better not be, because I got about 6 or seven more stops to ride before I get where I wanna go.

OK.  my vacation is over.

It is time to get down to business.

WRITE TNC (who I have been reading since he profiled a coworker and friend of mine in the Washington City Paper 14 yrs ago) has been all over the scapegoating of Black folk for the passing of Prop 8 in CA

Also…make sure to peep his comments.  His comments>> some folks whole blog existence.

The link inside that post are from an EXHAUSTIVE dailykos diary post that is a MUST read for anyone who is bothered by what happened on Tuesday and the resulting beef that seems to have sprung up.

I am currently getting my 38 yo freshman on so I had to print it up for my own reading.  I look forward to addressing this this after I get off of work

*inhales*

*Exhales*

*pinches himself*

*Smiles broadly*

*calls his job to tell them he will be late….just so he can hear the renewed “hate” in Rush Limbaugh’s voice.*

*breathes again*

*sighs contentedly*

*nods to himself…Yes, We did.*

*heads off to work, because he still has no words*

Three hours later…I am still trying to sort through the emotions.  I have seen my share of history, and to be honest, I have seen more bad than good.

Today.  There is no doubt.  This is the greatest historical moment of my lifetime.  I am appreciative that my Grandmother, who was born before the advent of radio in a segregated Washington, DC, was able to live to see this day; a day that I never thought I would see myself; a day that I thought my young children would have the chance to bring about, appeared almost over night.

America elected a man who embodies all that is good about this nation.

I would like to take this moment to acknowledge Senator John McCain, who showed a grace in defeat that was reminiscent of all that we hold admirable in him, but has been sorely lacking in the past few years.

Senator McCain, you are a great American and I honor your service and appreciate your candor and grace in defeat.

As for your supporters, I will ignore my own impulses and exercise the grace of my President-Elect and encourage you to join us in advancing the fortunes of our great country.

There is much to do and I hope you are as anxious to engage in the process of the next step as I am.

I am emboldened by his words and I look forward to the next step in this improbably journey.

But first…allow me to enjoy my moment.

Sixty Minutes longer.

AND THEN we watch and count and watch people who have already proven they are two days late and four dollars short on getting stuff right in this election. 

I thought I would take this opportunity to say that I am just glad THIS part of it is over. And that I am looking forward to getting on with the next stage.

Now we wait for Virginia.

*Looks back at the clock…waits*