President Obama, Girl Scout Cookies, Fundies and Thanksgiving Silliness
Posted on November 25th, 2008 in Random Thoughts | No Comments »
Hello everyone and happy Thanksgiving! It’s been a little bit and I feel like I have a lot to go over with you. It would be flat out wrong for me to not start out by saying how excited I am about the Presidential Election. I know I am a month late here but I have been a busy man. Not busy compared to many; but I am more easily overwhelmed than most. I should probably dedicate an entire post to my thoughts on the decision our country so decisively made on November 4th, so I’ll keep this brief. While I tried to keep race out of any discussion I had leading up to the election, after Obama’s victory it has to be commented on. I was gleaming with pride that so many put their petty prejudices aside to vote for Barack on Election Day. Let’s face it, racism is still alive and well in this country and will be for the foreseeable future. But, what a huge step we as a country made. For those of you out there with young children, your kids are not going to understand racism as we do just like we don’t understand it as our parents probably do. They are going to grow up in those formidable years that shape how they think and who they are living under an African American President. It really is a beautiful thing that is still so hard to grasp. Obviously it was going to happen eventually, but even just a year ago I don’t think anyone saw it coming so soon. And now that Barack Obama has been elected, can my Microsoft Word please recognize his name and stop underlining it in red like it’s a spelling error. Martin Van Buren, Rutherford Hayes, Calvin Coolidge – no red lines under any of these Presidents’ names. Does anyone have Bill Gates phone number so I can give him a call and have this updated? Read the rest of this entry »