Sorry to say, I feel asleep during Obama's speech. I saw Jessie Jackson crying... other black folks hugging and crying. I saw cynical news anchors making funny faces, guffawing, sighing and
rolling their eyes during the broadcast.

I heard weird things come out of their mouths too as I flipped around the stations. When McCain conceded, Katie Couric said something that I'd have to find the clip of to really explain, but it made me feel a little weird. I don't remember it verbatim so I'm not gonna quote her. I just plaeyed it back about five times to make sure I wasn't crazy.

Then again you can't scrutinize every second of live media coverage. People are people and you can't read anyone's minds.

But hey I DVR-ed the Obama thing and I'm catching up on it right now.

As a black person, I'm not sure how I feel about the 'vicory'. I certainly wasn't crying. I'm kinda concerned. I really didn't want to be watching tv with his head all close up on a big screen tv and watch someone shoot him or some fake-ass 911-like terrorist attack shitt lie where someone sets off a bomb in the crowd near the stage or worse.

This black man in the White House stresses me out. Reminds me of that Chris Rock movie where he keeps imagining winning the presidential election and being shot. That would have just been too much for me to deal with.

Then there's the other side of me that doesn't believe in any of this. The side that knows our constitution has been dismantled along with our health care system, the education system, so on and so fourth.

That part of me knows all this is total BS. I decided to take some classes at Texas Southern University (and I love it. more of a college experience than U of H for sure. Eh, I'll finish my degrees at U of H soon enough). But it was kinda cool seeing and hearing all these young black folks talking about voting and the election. It didn't seem like there was anyone on the campus that hadn't voted early.

All in all, it's just another day. I need to give my mom a hug. I should've been at home with her when this historic moment went down.

Ok, back to the national economic meltdown... at least gas went below $2 bux for a week. Wish I was on tour.

(this was originally a post on the Hands Up message board...cut n' paste)