this thread is for all the felons(including myself) who wants to vote but cant. luckily my wife is casting her vote. and my vote would have been for obama. a have plenty of reasons why but ill give one that i havent heard many speak on.
reguardless of the intentions of obama he is still just one man and he is a politician. history has shown that dramatic social change only comes to past by people of god. the government is the government and even as i believe that obama will attempt to do a lot of programs and assistance to aid the poor and middle class congress is going to give him hell to pass most of what he wants to do. i know first hand how that process works due to the fact although i was young i remember when mayor harold washington was in chicago and he was the same sort of person like obama but the city council led by the fukkin devil mayor daley gave harold washington hell on all the programs and reform he was tryin to pass in the city. so i dont look for that from obama. the likelyhood is that the same economic and energy crisis we in now will probally still be here 4 years from now. obama is not faced with trying to just clean up a mess that bush has drove us deeper in to. but this countrys problems are about 3 other regimes old.
what obama does though is stand as a symbol for change on mental perception about black people. for hunderds of years the racist in this country have created this taboo opinion about the inferiorty of black people. we were so called brung here from savage africa and once lived as the monkeys did. with every step of progression we have made we have had many who critisized us and ridiculed us. in every field we excelled in they have bashed us. "we are great in sports because we come from jungle africa and were used to jumping and running" if we give the world malcom x, martin luther king and many other brilliant black men who trumped white scholars in intelligence, they are then called religious fanatics and viewed as crazy. obama has come through the best colleges and the worst neighborhoods. yet he has beat the best that they had to offer. i mean he defeated the clintons who were seen as they best. if the clintons aint the best they had to offer show me who else? now despite the racist and biased principles of many he about to be the president. it shows the greatness of our influence in this country and how far we have gone in perception in the minds of many who judge us. dont get it twisted we aint free from the tyranny and prejudice that plague this country. we are still going to have to deal with driving while black, last hired first fired, and injustice system, a lopsided educational system, a police department that will still shoot us down in the streets, cases like jena 6,scapegoating hip hop for all the problems of the country, nooses poppin up out of nowhere etc. etc. etc. but at least no longer can the world as a whole look at black people like we are second class and not good enough. at least when the question is asked "what do you want to be when you grow up" and a child answers "president" we can say it and people wont be in the back of they heads thinking "yeah whatever n1gga". at least we have a argument when the world tries to judge every black man like we are just lazy, dead beat dogs who care more for weed and sex than we do about responsibility. thanks to michelle obama we can finally see a black woman who is not just some additude having money hungry bustdown but as a intelligent black woman who doesnt take her position to her head and get arrogant and that stands and supports her man.
thank you obama for showing the world that black people can succeed in anything.....
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