To the tune of Lil' Wayne's (or whoever wrote it for him) "A Milli"
OBAMA, OBAMA, OBAMA!
Congrats to Barack Obama on being our nation's first African-American male president! This is a complete milestone for our nation and I'm so glad I was a part by voting and seeing all the campaign work that went into this election. Then January 20th yet again will be another history in the making moment as Barack Obama accepts the presidential position and is sworn into office.
Through all this celebration of our new Mr. President, I do however, have a concern raised in my mind; bandwagoners, ignorance, the media and the bigger picture.
Bandwagoners and Ignorance
"Well, if you vote for Obama all he's going to care about are his people." As terrible as that sounds this is something I've heard throughout the election straight up to the election day. The idiocracy of that statement alone hasn't been able to let me begin to comprehend how the speaker managed to let it slip out of their mouths.
What do you mean "all he's going to care about are his people"?! If we break it down, what do you even mean by "his people"?!
First off, thinking like that must mean that you think all these years and all other forty-three presidents before him must have been there to serve only the 'caucasians'.
Then if you mean by "his people" you mean just blacks, then you are so wrong, his people are AMERICANS. They are all (legal) citizens and all who have a voice and place in America. That's you too, speaker. You are Barack Obama's "people" now.
"Yes! A black president, I can do whatever I want!"
I swear to you all I heard this straight from someone's mouth. Whether or not they were joking it does not matter because there actually ARE people who think like this. I don't even feel the need to go all out here I'm sure you all know where I'm getting at; if you don't...ask someone.
Then we have the people who didn't even vote with no valid reason as to why not, forwarding "Obama won!" text messages or walking up and down swearing McCain should've been the winner. Now, there's no big problem with that, but the problem enters when these people don't even understand, care, and/or know what these candidates stand for!
Bandwagoning is ridiculous point blank. There's not a thing wrong with celebrating or stating opinions, but doing so when you didn't even care to take part in the action or don't even know who is for or againsn't what issues let alone even care to educate yourself on what the issues were and how they'd affect your life; that's just absurd. You wouldn't buy second hand underwear would you? Get your own education and opinions.
The Media
At exactly 11:02 pm I turned on CNN to find that Obama has won the election and they are interviewing (from all the clips i saw) all the black people. They showed an entire Baptist church celebrating and kept showing up clips of EXTREMELY excited blacks...ONLY.
Clicked over to Fox...same thing.
Another news channel...same thing.
Woke up this morning, turned on CNN...the image of a heavy set black lady whose shirt did a poor job of housing her 'goodies' was on the screen. She kept jittering up and down and screaming like a maniac, "OBAMA! OBAMA!" My immediate reaction?
WHY.
Why does the media have to show such clips or show only interviews of blacks. It is more than obvious he won majority vote from blacks we KNOW that it's in every overview.
But what about the little more than half votes from whites that he won! Why not interview one of those people that voted for him it wasn't just black people that voted for him!
By showing clips or interviews of only ONE thing the media is boosting what the ignorant people at home are already thinking!
Now I'm not saying the media is the devil and that we should all boycott the news stations...I'm simply suggesting that we do not take all that we see too deeply.
Here again is the idea of educating yourselves, if you were one of the people that did not agree with Obama's win please make sure your answer is because you don't agree with his point of views on something and not just because you don't agree with his skin color.
The BIGGER picture
Barack Obama's win is a huge stride from the days of slavery and segregation; now America is more than ever a melting pot which is great!
But Obama elected president doesn't just mean something blacks and it should carry more pride for everyone, not just black pride.
Obama's mother was white and from Kansas his father black and from Kenya. The union to concieve our Mr.President says something all on it's own!
Obama elected should mean everything that was thought to be a "White man's job" has now become an anyone-willing-to-work-hard job. It is a remarkable leap for EVERYONE.
This win isn't just for blacks.
It's a win for America as a nation.
A win for Hispanics, Asians, orange people, purple people.
It's a win for the Future.
So don't look at it from only one angle; take a step back and look at the bigger picture.
