This past Wednesday, The Little Black Book celebrated the release of its 12th Volume along with La Vida Magazine, and The Colors Project through “Achieving Queer Power through Literature and the Arts,” co-sponsored by QPOC, The LGBT Center, and La Casa Latina. The event celebrated Latino Queer author, Charles Rice Gonzalez. The event was well attended and brought together different communities together for a common purpose.
Thank you for another great semester and submitting your poetry and artwork to The Little Black Book. As we continue the legacy of promoting Black student writing on campus, I want to encourage more students who are interested in expressing their identities and experiences to submit.
Now I am one of the last folks on earth to discuss politics with because I’ll tell you flat out that I could care less.And if a political update isn’t on someone’s facebook status, then it all flies by me.However, when I came across this article, I couldn’t overlook it.But when something hits home, I guess it does make it a bit difficult to ignore, and seeing that this deals with my home state, I guess that’s close enough to home.
Anywho, Ohio makes political news again with yet another fraud.Wait!Don’t know what I mean by another fraud.Well, let me tell you.In the 2004 election between John Kerry and George W. Bush, a “computerized voting machine ‘glitch’ was discovered in an Ohio precinct. A machine in ward 1B in the predominantly Republican Gahanna, Ohio, recorded 4,258 votes for George W. Bush when only 638 people cast votes at the New Life Church polling site.”But this was discovered after Kerry gave up based on the preliminary count that reported Bush was in the lead with “136,483 more votes than Kerry, although 155,428 provisional ballots, 92,672 “spoiled” ballots, additional overseas ballots, and some remaining absentee ballots remained uncounted.”Furthermore, it is important to know that Diebold Corporation was in charge of counting the e-ballots from the machines and tallying the votes.Why is this so important?Well, seeing that the CEO, Wally O’Dell (that’s a funny name), is a Pro-Republican who “wrote a letter to Ohio Republican donors telling them that he is ‘committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the President next year,’” it kind of makes a person raise an eyebrow in suspicion.(http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/3/2004/983)
Now let’s fast forward 4 years later to this election.The battle isn’t between the political giants of the Republicans and Democrats because Brotha McCain is probably resting it up in Phoenix somewhere.However, it’s within the Democratic Party as a volunteer member of the Ohio caucus reported to have “noticed a whole list had Sen. Hillary Clinton written in similar handwriting in the presidential preference column for each of the six voters on that list.”(http://www.dailytexanonline.com/).With this discovery coming after the win Sen. Clinton’s win of Ohio, it makes a person question how honest this election will be.
What the deuce is this mess?Hearing stories like this helps me validate my political affiliation with the Apathetic Party because truthfully, I don’t have faith that any of the candidates will be able to make significant changes.Maybe I’m too cynical, but with stories like this, it’s kind of hard not to be.If a person wants power so much that he or she would be willing to steal it, then how much faith should I have in them to make decisions that’s going to affect me?And hey, with a White woman and Black man running for president, why not mix up the race and gender issue, and let me, a Black woman, run for the position of el presidente.I know how honest and upstanding I am, and personally, I’m getting a little tired of the torn Black woman voter who doesn’t know whether to pledge her allegiance to her race or to her sex.
Got questions about colored people and politics? We’ll discuss them here. The revolution will be blogged and we’ll be there trying not to mess up our hair.
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