I’ve been an anxious, jumpy, hand-wringing mess all day. I stood in line way before the polls opened and was one of the first in my precinct to vote. I wore all blue to piss off the cranky conservatives in my area and I ate cocoa crispies for breakfast to pre-celebrate.
I can’t wait for this to be over. I can’t wait to not have to see signs everywhere telling me I deserve to be a second-class citizen. I can’t wait to not see petty behavior such as putting a McCain or “Yes on Prop 2!” sign right in front of the opposition. (Whatever, I know I’m tooling around with a trunk load of stolen Prop 2 signs, but I leave the others. This is just a blatant show of malice and oppression that I can’t handle.) I can’t wait to not hear about how shady bitches are mailing out deceitful letters to minority voters to cause them to lose their vote. And I’ll come out and say it: the childish ones are always conservative republicans. Yeah, I’m biased, but I’m also a behaviorist. You never hear about republicans receiving letters that tell them voting is a day later for them because of the record numbers, so show up on Wednesday.
Ugh. I’m going back and forth between wanting to hole myself up this evening with some Moon River Pizza and baking some celebration chocolate chip cookies, or going to an Obama party at a politically like-minded friend’s house to hopefully celebrate.
If Obama doesn’t win… I think I will have lost faith in this country to be something I can be proud of. I will lose faith in being regarded as a human being and rightful citizen. I will lose faith in my fellow Americans for being complete fools. While I don’t believe Obama will do anything great for me personally, I also believe he won’t go fucking around with my rights. It’ll stay as it is, with the HOPE of being equal one day still there. If anything, I hope that just the presence of a minority in a place of power will encourage other minorities to band together, and will encourage some scared white folk to see outside the racial box. Maybe… racism will become un-patriotic? I hope the other civilized countries will have restored faith in us, as well.
Unfortunately, regardless of how the presidential election turns out, I am concerned with the fate of the HATEFUL props in Arizona, California, and Florida. This night will be bittersweet.
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In other bigoted news, Forrest Highschool has decided to keep their school’s name, despite the fact that the school was named after a prominent member of the white supremacist group KKK. Their reasoning: pure laziness and wanting to “celebrate confederate heritage.” I josh you not. Because, you see, confederate heritage is worth celebrating when it was clearly about slavery and oppression. Forrest is a predominantly African-American school – nice message to send to those kids.
