thats crazy! i LOVE it! and for so many reasons. but i still have so many questions at the same time. i wonder if racist people will be made more angry or lighten up a bit - probably a bit of both. i wonder if lazy black men will stop with the obvious and easy excuse. i wonder if black-on-black crime will ease up a bit simply out of solidarity. i wonder if young african american women will begin to dream again of being the first female president. i wonder if all the people who finally decided to vote in this election will keep up the trend and vote again - will pay more attention to politics - will start to care about how they relate to and are seen in the world... but i wonder a lot of things...
ive got to get to my grandfathers house. im sure he will be quite amused, if not just sitting around in tears. his grandfather was a slave - dare i say his father was too (sadly im not sure). but that in and of itself is amazing to fathom. it only took what...5 generations (in MY family at least) to go from slave to President.. the United States President a black man... lol.. yes i DO realize he is mixed. but lets be for real.. no one is going to look at a picture of him and say - well..he's half white. theyll see the photo and see black man. even if they dont he came out of interracial breeding so really...its a win/win. as far as that in concerned anyway.
i think im still in shock...
i wonder if the experience of the newly transitioning black transman will be different from the guys in the past...if the world will change enough in the next few years where the profiling wont be as bad as ive heard some of the guys say it can be. random thought. dont get me fooled, i dont think everything is just going to change overnight..but clearly some things have changed already. its just hard to tell how much from this moderate little city in the middle of a RED state. lol.
im so silly.. i just like to hear them say it...President Barack Obama. ...sweeeeet.
where was i when the election was called for President Obama? in bed very asleep. received an anonymous phone call waking me up.. turned the tv on.. listened to McCain concede.. went to an NA meeting... lol.. "for the first time in man's entire history.." i couldnt resist *under my breathe* "a black man is President..*ahem*.. a simple way has been proving itself in the lives of many addicts..." lol
Raymond III
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OMG! I was so excited when they called the election for Obama!! It was like a landslide! My roommate was saying that, for the first time in a long time, he feels hopeful about the future.
About the racism thing, I think people will lighten up. This is interesting and I don't know if I will explain it well...but here it goes. A professor at our school who studies racism was talking to one of her colleagues up north. They run this experiment with something called the Implicit Association Task (IAT). It's a way of measuring implicit racism, so stuff you kind of keep buried in the back of your mind but maybe don't consciously say. Anyway, when they run the experiment in a certain way, they always get an effect. Since the Obama campaign began, the racism effects on the task are smaller...sometimes even not there. That's REALLY COOL that just having him run for president (because all this happened before he won), changed experiment results, in essence, people were less racist. Cool?
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I love how you captured the multi-questions that I for one definately had running through my mind about how it will change people from before they called the election.
It is amazing. And as "sure" as I felt about the nations hunger for change it still was amazing that it happened.
I feel you on the context historically; my family still lived on someone else's "place" literally picking cotton and bringing in crops in my grandmother's lifetime. She left the south to give her children a different life. I'm actually first generation born outside of the south. That makes it all that more incredible and yup lol like you the first person I wanted to see was my grandparent. I felt like it was her moment. E_J
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