YES!
UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And if you don't know what I'm talking about, you're not a Suns fan.
And if you don't know what I'm talking about, you're not a Suns fan.
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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I was working on the computer and she kept running over to me, "They're winning!" I would smile, nod, and say, "Yes. I hear it too."
After the game was over, she went out the front door, into the neighborhood. I think she expected other people to come outside their doors too -- maybe congregate, have a neighborhood meeting and talk highlights. But nobody else was out there. She came back in looking disapointed. But I gave her a high-five, so we could share the moment. It was more fun for me to watch her than to hear the game.
Neil, yeah, that part's not so great.
I love Steve's enthusiasm...that would have been me!