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Carey
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Username: Carey
Post Number: 1324
Registered: 05-2004
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Votes: 1 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, November 05, 2008 - 11:10 am: | 
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Hello
There are so many things I should be doing today but I am totally consumed by the current events.
There's an article on Yahoo, asking the question, Why Did Obama Win? I'll get back to that.
I am sure we all have stories of struggle. It's been said that if a person or thing controls your mind, it controls you. I am not one to blame others for my faults or character defects, however, if a dream is stunted by limited exposure who's to blame? Maybe no one should be blamed because in doing so, we look behind us and not forward.
I mention this because when I think back at the possible dreams of my grandfather, six generation past, I know he looked forward to a day in which he no longer would be a slave, that day came. In 1865 he was released from slavery in Kentucky and moved north. While a slave he was responsible for the care of the farm animals. He carried that skill with him and settled into a white community.
A few generations later, my great-grandmothers's dream was to simply go to school. As a kid, she never had the oppurtunity to go on a regular basis, she worked in the field and later raised 10 children while working as a sharecropper along side my great-grandfather. My mothers dream was to go to high school and gratuate, she did that.
I was talking to my daughter this morning and we started talking about my grandson. Just to hear her voice made me stop and think of a dream my wife shared with me. See, my daughter was not planned. My wife became pregnant while we were in high school. There was talk of abortion and adoption. We married and struggled as young parents, yet we shared dreams and passed them along to our children.
My daughter went back to Kentucky, not as a slave or someone looking for their slave roots but as a student at the University Of Kentucky. My wife passed away 6 months before the birth of our grandchild. This morning while I was talking to my daughter, she told me that my grandson, who is 5 yrs old, said him and Obama are just alike. My daughter replied, yes you are both black. He said, no we are both presidents. He was voted president of his 1st grade class.
It wasn't important to him that they shared the same color. He was proud of the fact that he was good enough to be voted president.
Why Did Obama Win?
He was The Best Man For The Job!
Carey
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A_womon
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Username: A_womon
Post Number: 2431
Registered: 05-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, November 06, 2008 - 10:50 am: |
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Yes I've seen silly things on the web too, Carey, like--Did Obama Buy the Election? Damn, even with the entire world watching, USA continues to show it's racist ass! |
A_womon
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Username: A_womon
Post Number: 2432
Registered: 05-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, November 06, 2008 - 10:53 am: |
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And I don't know about anyone else, but when I got to work it was so quiet you could hear the cows snoring way out on the farm!
I was like...Did we just elect a new president? Was it not an historic event??? Why is the world partying and every white face in my office looking like its the end of the world? I guess Obama took Ohio with by turning a lot of white folks blue. |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 13014
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, November 06, 2008 - 01:51 pm: |
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It's hard to concede defeat, especially when the situation is one where you're used to being a winner.
53 million people, most of whom were white, voted against Barak Obama and, in doing so, indicated that no matter how qualified an upstanding black candidate is, an elderly erratic white man and a clueless loose cannon white woman are still their preference.
This is a mind set that is entrenched in racial bias and old habits die hard. |
Carey
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Username: Carey
Post Number: 1330
Registered: 05-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, November 06, 2008 - 02:27 pm: |
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Good point, Cynique.
Like A_Womon, last night I found myself in a situation that I didn't see coming. I had a little speaking engagement and I was still in the flow of this monumental event so I had on my Obama T-shirt. It wasn't a big crowd so I thought casual dress was cool. The T-shirt read, "It's Time for the change". The faces of Dr. King and Obama cover the entire shirt. At the bottom in bold print, it says, "We have a dream". Let me tell ya, when I walked in that room, lawd knows I was the Ni**a. See, I was talking with some of these people before the event and they were cool but when they saw that I was the speaker, lawd have mercy! At first I still didn't get it. I stopped during a part of my thang and asked one person if they were alright. I mean the man was looking sick AND looking at me with this look of...sometin'. I said, excuse me, are you okay? He said, "yeah am fine, is Obama okay". Cynique, I damn near died. I said, WHAT? I looked across the room and most of the faces had this same look.
Yeah, someone didn't tell them who was coming to dinner and I was about to be desert. |
Vanders
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Username: Vanders
Post Number: 17
Registered: 06-2008
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, November 10, 2008 - 04:39 pm: |
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Hey Carey, Thanks for validating my experience. My husband and I just returned from South Carolina for the Heritage Day Festival celebrating the Gullah culture and its people. The festival was in St Helena Island. We stayed at the Holiday Inn in Beauford county, recommended to us by the Black Chamber of Commerce of the county. The hotel/suite was beautiful; however, the guest for the most part did not look like us. If looks could kill, I would not be writing to you now. I arrive in the hotel lobby with my Obama t-shirt on and that seemed to do something. First off we drove down from Philly and the further south,the more we saw there were no Obama/Biden signs only McCain/Palin, everywhere. People really started looking at me in the rest stops with my t-shirt on, but walking around the lobby of the hotel gave me a bad feeling. I mean not a smile to be found until we ran into a black woman who worked at the hotel and she stated she could tell by the look in folks eyes who voted for McCain. When we called my mother-in-law and told her what appeared to be happening, she said take the shirt off. My husband said don't and wear your shirt with pride. I did, but I must admit I felt concerned for our safety or that someone would do something to our car. When we got to the Heritage Festival the next day, it was indeed a different story. Folks were wearing and buying Obama t-shirts more than the 26th Annual Heritage Day t-shirts that were selling. Obama didn't win South Carolina I believe, but he did win me and all the Gullah people and will be our president and that's the bottom line. Vanders |
Carey
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Username: Carey
Post Number: 1343
Registered: 05-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, November 10, 2008 - 05:59 pm: |
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Hey Vanders, I knew someone had an Obama T-shirt .
Yeah, thoses eyes said it all. Nothing covert about it. But see, I wasn't going to play with them. I mean, they looked as if they wanted to fight. Am feelin' your momma-in-law, I ain't no punk but they were MAD! If I could have, I would have put on a shirt with rainbows or donkey behinds, but that Obama would have been gone *lol*. Yet, I smiled and did my thang. It's a new day. |
Carey
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Username: Carey
Post Number: 1349
Registered: 05-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, November 13, 2008 - 01:23 pm: |
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I am going out tonight and do my thang. I have to wear a suit but I think I'll do my best Eddie Kane and BAM...3 Obama T-shirts under my vest.
Now I ain't stupid and some pain takes a long to simmer down. This will be a black crowd and I am sure they will appreciate the moment. I think I'll break out in song, "nights like this....."
You would have to have seen the picture. I think every black person has seen it several times. |
Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 7536
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, November 15, 2008 - 10:44 am: |
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And I don't know about anyone else, but when I got to work it was so quiet you could hear the cows snoring way out on the farm!
(I asked a 16 year old girl (black) last week how folks were dealing with it at her high school.
She said they ain't even talking about it no more.
I see a Bad Moon Rising...) |
Carey
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Username: Carey
Post Number: 1355
Registered: 05-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, November 15, 2008 - 11:52 am: |
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Chris, would you stop. You must bet on St Louis and the Chiefs at the same time. |
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