the adventures of pamalicious

You are being forwarned:  This is coming from a in the last five years voter and someone who is not versed on politics as a whole and reading and learning as I go along. However, that has neva stopped me having an opinion, lol  This will probably though - be either the only or next to the last conversation from me about the entire thing.

I have been reading a coupla sites and listening to the radio and it’s got my feathers ruffled on the real. Who the fuck are you to start trying to tell me that my ‘black card’ is being challenged if I don’t vote for Obama?!

I DO NOT have to vote for him to prove I am black or to prove we have a belief that a blackman can win. This whole argument would be valid, if we as a people had a history of being unified and had dropped everything and consistently pushed our way through (speaking of recent history i.e. my generations history).  However, we can’t even agree on simple shit like should your daughter dress like a whore or not - so I’mma need ya’ll to step back two spaces on the subtle and not so subtle conversation about what I as a black woman should be doing - especially coming from other black people.

In my opinion, we are a people who base a lot on the infamous ‘dream’. We love a good dream. That’s why we hang on to that line in MLK’s history so hard.  He did say a hell of a lot more you know that was more about action and less about ‘the dream’.  We thrive on it. Some of the very foundation of keeping us from going buck wild on toubob when we got here was them instilling the ‘dream’ concept in us from the dream of freedom to the dream of the return of Jesus Christ. Therefore - this is right up our emotionally damaged alley to start to freak out and divide over this latest ‘dream’.

In my opinion - I have come on board to honoring what went down to give me the right to vote and therefore I am exercising that right, whichever direction I turn in.

So I will vote on who I want to and it’s actually none of your business who I vote for (not even on American Idol, lol)  - but I am putting up force fields like a mutha against that group of negroes that have begun and are about to start trying to put decide they are the the most capable of us and therefore they are going to tell us what we SHOULD be doing. You should have started that shit a long time ago about other things that really need to be addressed in our community - cause no matter who is President - we still got a hell of a lot of issues that need some conversation and as we pump all kinds of money, time and resources into this - just remember that.

Let me however, make this clear, I am enjoying the strides we have made to have an honestly real candidate. I am really enjoying the reworking of the landscape of coverage and conversation that he has caused to have to happen - the crossing of the T and dotting of the I’s has been hilarious. I am PROUD that he is making movement - but I have not lost sight that we still live in America and though there are a whole bunch of us who have separated ourselves from the past and there are even more of us who have joined the ranks of the wealthy - THIS is still AmeriKKKa and I don’t have a lot of confidence, even if I have some in his ability to do the job, on AmeriKKKa. It’s was, is and will always be the shadiest show in town.  When I stop needing a HVAC suit to move through the bullshit - then come talk to me.