M. Scott
"When I discovered Youtube, I didn't work for five days. I did nothing. I viewed Cookie Monster sings Chocolate Rain about a thousand times."
{I almost want to watch this 1000 times.}
{I almost want to watch this 1000 times.}
I figured out a title: This post is more about race than it is about politics
For me, one of the favorable things about Barack Obama is that he's black. Half black, but black nonetheless. I've heard a lot of hullabaloo -- especially in the media -- that we really ought not let race play a factor in this election. Geraldine Ferraro was lambasted for suggesting that Obama's race was to his advantage in beating Clinton. But I agreed with her, as far as I understood her comments correctly. His ethnicity makes me more inclined to vote for him. If we don't elect a black president this year, it will be a very, very long time before we ever elect a black president. Or a Chinese-American president, or a Jewish president, or a Mormon president and I could go on. The black cultural things about Obama make some people very nervous: his African-American church, for example, or the racially-charged thesis that his wife supposedly wrote at Princeton, or was it Yale? 1 There are way too many people, of all political parties, in this country who harbor biases t...
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Beck, this was a quote from The Office on Thurs. A year ago (years?) a guy posted this awesome song he had written and performed on Youtube and it tipped. The sheer awesomeness of Chocolate Rain was imitated far and wide. Cookie Monster was one of the many who mocked.