I need to pull one last stick from my craw in regards to this election. Even though I understand and appreciate the sentiment, it's very hard for me not to say anything when I hear the phrase, "Our people died for the right to vote!".
Voting is a tool, a means to an end, they died for the right to self determination, and we, I, should use any means necessary to achieve that goal. Lets hope this was a true step in that direction.
We have finally got that coveted belly star.
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I always cringe when I hear people say that. It's just something they have heard and pick up. Little do they realize that it's not the right to vote that people died for -- but the right to equality in terms of social, political and economic justice.
I think my biggest fear now that "we" have won is that people will begin to think that America no longer has a problem with race.
Just looking at all the red/blue maps this morning reinstates that America most definitely does STILL have a problem with race.
With the exception of Florida and Virginia (two others -- NC and MO -- are still undeclared officially), all the states below the Mason-Dixon line voted Republican. And being a child with roots in Mississippi, I can pretty much guarantee that the majority of the people in those states didn't vote the way they did because they found Palin so inspiring, but because they refuse, in this lifetime, to vote for an uppity N*****.
There is still lots more work to do. Work that will not be completed in my lifetime or that of my children's children.
you have children with children?!!! :)
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