TWIB>>>whatever you spent last night watching
Posted: November 12, 2008 Filed under: Campaign 2008, Obama, Race, This Week in Blackness 3 Comments »
I was gonna post something…but this is >>>>anything I woulda posted.
see y’all tomorrow.
Welcome to Tuesday Night Hyperbole
Posted: November 11, 2008 Filed under: Campaign 2008, Obama | Tags: American Flag, Patrick O'Toole, Texas 1 Comment »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.
Dont Judge a Cover Story by its Cover.
Posted: November 11, 2008 Filed under: Campaign 2008, Obama, Politics, Race | Tags: David Remnick, New Yorker 2 Comments »
Great Cover.
Great Journalist writing the cover story.
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.
Morning in America 2.0
Posted: November 5, 2008 Filed under: Campaign 2008, Obama, Politics, Race 2 Comments »*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*
Still in the moment
Posted: November 5, 2008 Filed under: Campaign 2008, John McCain, Obama 3 Comments »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.
With All due respect to JJP…DO NOT LET THIS MAN DOWN.
Posted: October 28, 2008 Filed under: Campaign 2008, Obama, Politics, Race 2 Comments »This man’s wife passed away and he promptly went down to join the campaign as a volunteer.
Do not let his work be in vain.
Masochism. That has to be it
Posted: October 15, 2008 Filed under: Campaign 2008, Mixtape, Obama, Obama Mixtape 4 Comments »There are 20 days left.
I have made a conscious effort to stop torturing myself. It is plain that the dominant media is completely indifferent to covering this campaign responsibly.
More to the point, The dominant media is incapable because its concept of expert is antiquated.
I could make examples, but you’ve seen them all.
I am just sick of it.
Now..go download the Obama Mixtape from Green Lantern.
(shout out to NahRight.com)
No wonder Bill hates Barack.
Posted: October 5, 2008 Filed under: Campaign 2008, Clinton, Obama, Politics 1 Comment »Hat-Tip and courtsey to Mamalicious
Bill Clinton HATES having to campaign for this man…Trust me when I tell you.
The Bottom Line
Posted: September 29, 2008 Filed under: John McCain, Obama, Politics 3 Comments »Here is the deal.
You have a rabidly unpopular bailout plan that 33% of folk hate because they feel like they are getting stuck paying for a party they weren’t even allowed to attend and 33% of folk hate because someone told them too, even though they have only a passing idea of what it actually means.
John McCain made a BIG deal this morning about how he saved this thing and got it done.
Except it ain’t done.
Barack Obama made a point of layin low and trying to stay out of the foolishness, supporting it tepidly at best, because near as I can tell, he KNEW it was ricketty and after watching McCain run out on the plank so far, he decided the safest plan was to simply mind his Ps and Qs and stay on his grizzle.
So, here we are, no bailout, Dow down 700 600 575, a Jewish holiday tomorrow, and pretty much nothing good has come from this so far.
And whose fault is this?
Pick a name out of a hat, and you would probably be right.
