i know i haven't written in a minute...been caught up with work, painting, and listening to the same ole bullshit on cnn, msnbc, etc. the occasional quick flip to foxnews just to see what those assholes are talking about..see if i can catch someone saying some racist shit. sidenote: anyone watch when that newscaster urged white people to do their duty and make more babies in anticipation for the minority population takeover. crazy stuff.
watched the first two acts of when the levees broke today and will be fuming for life...it's amazing how you can never exhaust the supply of anger that's held within you and reserved for those moments when you're faced with such...i don't think there's a single word suitable for describing what those people went through. it was like when i thought i had reached the depth of my hatred and disgust for bush and his administration and then found out they knew in august that iran wasn't actively trying to attain nuclear power, but tried to lead us into another war anyway. God, these people are fucking sick. realizing this post is not "so funny".
anyway, just read this op-ed gloria steinem wrote for the ny times: "women are never front-runners". emailed it to you pimp, but thought you all might be interested...basically, she claims that the only reason obama is seen as more viable, over clinton, is due to his gender. black males, she claims, have been given more opportunities than white women in this country. "gender is probably the most restricting force in american life" i don't know what country this woman lives in, but it sure as hell isn't the america i know and hate...needless to say, a lot of people have been responding to her piece. what i find most problematic (and "what worries me") is her failure to address the issue/existence of BLACK WOMEN! yes, we do exist...us chosen ones who have been blessed with membership of both minority groups. hallelujah. not only that, but have black women not suffered at the hands of racial bigotry? reading her article, you would think that it was only black men who were sold into slavery, stripped of their rights, beaten, and killed. i would love to ask her what the fuck does it matter that black men were given the right to vote before white women if institutionalized racism and the promise of violence kept them from fully employing that right until after white women received it? what's ironic about the whole freakin article is that hillary clinton IS a front-runner and has been for almost all of the 2 million years this election season has been going on for. if clinton is given the nomination, steinem doesn't even have a leg to stand on. anyways, this quote was one of my favorites from the responses i read: "So, I’m supporting Senator Barack Obama because he’ll be a great president. And, not because he’s Black." preach.
earlier today after watching the documentary, i was thinking: man, if i could just get george bush in a room....the things i would say to him. and ms. rice too...let's throw her in there and find out how she sleeps at night. shopping for ferragamo shoes and playing tennis while people who look like her are struggling for their lives...then using her identity as an african-american when it's convenient to do so. now, i'll add this steinem lady to my list. i need to get oprah on the phone and make it happen.
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