The more things change...

Is it okay to touch on this yet?
Barack Obama has made history by becoming the 44th President of the United States of America. In case you didn't know it- Barack Obama is also black. I was stunned last week when Obama won. I was overjoyed, I remember laughing at my neighbors who had ran to their windows or terraces to cry out and rejoice that a black man had been elected (overwhelmingly) by the people.

Then I stopped for a moment and turned to my dealer and said almost shamefully: "Lawd, please don't let them kill this nigga." We both laughed a little and shook our heads. We were both happy as hell. But I think it was one of those jokes where you laugh because the truth in it makes you uncomfortable.
We later sat there in silence and cried together watching Obama give his acceptance speech. History had been made and it was good history, something that I will always want to remember.

The next day I kept running across alot of White People who seemed to be happy about Obama. But they would say things like: "Well, let's hope things will get better now" Or "Let's hope we get the change we need" Now maybe it doesn't really mean much more than that. But I detected a nervousness from these people. As if they weren't sure they did the right thing.

Shame on anyone, who believes that 1. Obama can come in and save us from 150 years of a fucked up, one sided government. It can't be done in 8 years and it certainly can't be done in 4. Obama has to first make heads or tails of the destruction caused by the Bush Era. And as you can see they are already trying to find a way to get him to start working on problems that Bush swept under the rug. But I digress.

Racism doesn't cease to exist because we have a black president. If anything you will begin to see just how uncomfortable we really are with race in this country because of it. Racism is an ignorance that has to be deeply rooted in a person. You can be racist and have black friends or even dated outside of your race. And just because we voted for a spectacular candidate who happened to be black, don't think for a second racial views and/or stereotypes have died. Right Lindsay?