racism

wow, had an interesting chat today with a sweet guy named alex dixon. alex is the grandson of the incredibly prolific blues man willie dixon. we starting talking politics [which can be a dangerous thing, depending on who you're talking to!], but he brought it up!! lucky for both of us, we're both Obama supporters. He was telling me that he's helping the Obama campaign by volunteering to enlist new potential voters. On more than a few occasions he's had people, point blank, say to him that they won't be voting for obama because he's black! phewwwwwwwwwwww....i could not believe my ears. now i feel like i'm tearing up, you know the kind of tearing that almost burns your eyes. i think it's so sad that people are still thinking this way. no matter what obama does he can't really win, in a sense. he's been criticized for being too smart and a bit uppity. then, if he were uneducated, he would be condemned for that. meanwhile, it's ok for sarah palin to have a 17 year old daughter who is unmarried and pregnant but if would have been obama's daughter, consider what the repercussions might have been. sure, it's best to leave personal issues out of this election; my firm and sad belief is that racism is still alive and well in our culture today even though bill o'reilly et all were so terribly shocked about reverend wright's comments. c'mon, are you really going to pretend racism does not exist in any camp??? that's very naive. i personally don't condone it; but there are many others who are using it as an excuse to continue to hate... that's my story. and i'm stickin' to it.....

love, love, peace and love..

marcy xoxoxo