Finally proud to be an American:
Coming from a bi-racial family, yesterday's election meant a lot to me. I am white, and I can NEVER truly understand what it must be like to be a black person in our society, and I don't pretend to understand it. But I do have more experience than most white folks. My stepfather is black, my brothers are half black, grandparents, cousins, aunts, uncles are black ect … I hate to use the term "Stepfather" in my case and I rarely use it. I consider him my "true-father" he is the only father I have ever known and has been there for me my entire life, we disagree on many things and have had our share of fights, but I respect him and he is one of my heroes. My biological father was nothing more than a sperm donor to me…
I'm almost 40 now and race relations have come a long way since I was a child. I was raised in a black community from around 3 years of age, and have had the opportunity to see racism from ground zero. I saw first hand how my father was treated in public, the looks, stares and sneers he would get because he was with a white woman and had mixed children. I dealt with racism from white friends and some of my mother's side of the family too. And I have also seen my brothers deal with race issues in school and our community. So I was never that proud of my country, yes we had come a long was since the civil rights movement but not quite far enough, did I hear someone say KATRINA???
So I have been behind Obama for the last year now, and things were looking good for him, almost too good, so the Republicans went into a sad and desperate attack mode, I started hearing all the Reverend Jeremiah Wright (Obama's preacher) "anti-American" bullshit on the news. Wright's comments like "Goddamn America" and whatnot, well shit, I agreed with him, he has every right to say Goddamn America. His generation couldn't use the same drinking fountains as whites, couldn't eat in the same restaurants, couldn't take the same taxi's, Wright has every right to be upset at this country. Fortunately people saw these bullshit attacks for what they were, distractions from the real issues, and it all back fired on the Republican Party.
I never thought the day would come when I would see a black president, and my father feels the same, I only wish my grandparents had lived long enough to see it…Over the last few months when the polls showed Obama in the lead, I just didn't believe it. Even last night when it was announced that he had won, I still found it hard to believe… It takes a lot to make me cry, but all I could do was sit there and cry like a little bitch. I was so happy to see our country over look the race issue and finally elect a president that is truly FOR THE PEOPLE, all of the people.
I got an email from some asshole a few weeks ago; he accused me of supporting Obama just because he is black. And that couldn't be further from the truth. If the Republican's were running a black candidate and their platform was the same Republican bullshit, no way would I, nor the majority of the country have been on his side just for the color of his skin. I fought for Obama because our country needed a new direction a REAL leader for a change. The last eight years have been a shit stain on our country, and the thought of another 4 years of the same failed politics and bad foreign policy scared me and obviously it scared the rest of the country. America is HATED all over the world because of our dumb redneck president and we were LIED to about this unnecessary war from day one.
The world was watching this election closely and unbelievably Americans finally united and made the right decision and our country has grown immensely because of it. Shit, just to have a president that can think for himself and actually speak "English" is a breath of fresh air.
You Can't Change What Gets Your Dick Hard:
Having said all that, I hear that Proposition 8 has passed, taking away the right for gay people to marry, so we could still stand to improve in some areas I guess. How people in today's society cannot understand that Prop-8 was downright discrimination is beyond me. Its wrong, its bigoted, and it IS discrimination. You would think that my parents would understand this, having dealt with being discriminated against when they were getting married because they were a mixed couple. But unfortunately my parents voted yes on 8. I tried to reason with them to no avail. It's just their generation I guess, but I think its hypocrisy.
My mother and father's generation think that being gay is a choice. Right… like anyone would actually choose to be ostracized from society. But if you ask any gay person they will tell you that they were born that way, from as early as they can remember they knew they were gay. You can't change the color of your skin and you cannot change what gets your dick hard. Plain and simple. You are either straight or gay, you cannot CHANGE your sexual preference!
Lets not forget about the separation of church and state people! You are free to live your life according to bullshit written in a book 2000 years ago but to force your skewed world view on others is wrong and dangerous. So in the end America took 2 steps forward electing the first African American president but one step back on equal rights for everyone.
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