I got a chance to watch Hillary Clinton speech tonight and I have to say it moved me and was an amazing speech. She made a great point that the United states needs to work on it’s problems and work on how we are seen around the world. I also love how she really pushed the unity of the democratic party. I am an independent, but because I have leaned this year and in the past more toward the democratic candidates i have seen what is going on. I believe the speech has done it’s job and will bring the party closer together.

I still think the best part of the speech was when she asked people to think, did they support her or did they support the ideals that she and Obama believe in. I think too many people supported her as a women and not what she believed in and that is why they will not vote for Obama. If they agree with McCain instead fine, vote for him, but don’t complain about what he does if he is elected.

Overall the speech gave me goosebumps as it did other people from what I saw on Twitter. I do have to say she does know how to speak and get the attention of a room full of people. I am looking forward to the next two days, hopefully I can stay awake, last night I ended up going to sleep.

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I want to know why, not because I’m an Obama supporter, but because many of the people who have been saying this have been demicrats for years. Why give up your values just because it’s not a women up there. Now if you have switched because you actually agree with McCain more then okay that I understand, but I have talked to people who agree with everything that Obama says, but won’t vote for him because he’s not a women and didn’t choose a women for vp.

I just don’t think that some of these people realize that if the vote McCain in they will have to deal with what he belives in and what he want’s to do. The war will continue, US taxpayer money will continue to go to Iraq and nothing will change, if thats what they want, fine, but if they want an end to the war they need to grow up and do what is right, not act like a highschool kid and try to get back at Obama for winning the nomination.

This is the reasion that many young voters don’t vote, they figure voteing is a big scam because people just vote the party and don’t listen to the issues, they vote for the cute one or the person who looks better then the other. In this race I am sure that many will not vote for Obama because of race. It’s sad this is still going on, but it’s a truth that even he knows. I just think that if you are old enough to vote you need to vote because you agree with what the canidate has to say, not because your pissed off that they were nominated instead of someone else.

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It was announced very early this morning apparently. I don’t have a cell phone so I couldn’t sign up for anything. Yes I know it’s crazy I don’t have one, but I’m still paying off the $900 bill a friend racked up for me. This is why this post is not being written at 3 am.

Anyway I have to say I’m not sure about this pick, mostly because I really don’t know much about this person and their views. I agree more with Obama’s views then McCain’s so he still gets my vote as of now, but I know I need to learn more about the next guy. Why? The job is not that important right? Wrong, people forget that the VP is next in line and should be someone you like just as much as the guy actually running for president. Also I think the job of the VP may one day start to mean something more and we better have a good guy in office when it does.

From what I have read about him it seems like he has all of the things that Obama lacks, but enough similarities to make the ticket work. He has foreign policy experience as well has having been in the national political scene for a while now. He’s even run for president himself. I think another good thing about him is that he has stated that he thinks Obama is not ready for president, this is a good thing because he will help him, he will be there to support him more then someone who just thinks they are there for the ride.

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I’m taking a cultural diversity class and after reading this article on yahoo about how Obama is against blacks being paid for past slavery issues I decided I had to say something. Before I go much further I want to say I am not racist, I am not discriminative, but I am realistic.

I don’t believe that we as a society today should pay money directly to decedents of Slaves. Why well one your a decedent and YOU did not go though slavery, please stop acting like you did. I find people who do this acting very disrespectful to their ancestors who did go though it. It was hard on them and many did not survive it.

The other reason I don’t think whites should pay for slavery is that Non of us did that to you or your ancestors. We were not there WE had no control over any of it. In fact in my case my ancestors were not even in the US yet, therefore my family had nothing to do with it. Many other people also can claim this, in fact my family went through the holocaust. I’m not Jewish, but they supported Jews, that made them outcast and targets, did they get anything for that treatment, no.

Those two reasons are not the big reasons, they are things to think about. The big reason that I refuse to pay blacks for slavery is simple. It won’t help the bigger issue, we will still have people who don’t like blacks, and this will just make them hate them even more, this could cause a huge increase in hate crime and so on. The other big reason is that blacks were not the only ones enslaved, Jews, Irish, Asian, Indian and many more cultures were also enslaved or forced to work for very low wages.

I feel the only way to really help minorities is to create better schools, have national funded collages that will give out at least associate degrees to everyone, create trade schools in inner cities that teens can attend while in High School and earn a certificate that may get them a better job without worrying about college. Pretty much what I want to see is all minorities being treated equally to whites. Not different, not being paid off by us, but treated as equals. That is the only way to change our society and move on. Personally if I were given money by the government for something instead of things changing I would feel cheated and probably not take it. Now if you read this blog you know that I have never had a huge amount of money. I make between $500-$800 a month, online because I can’t find a job. What many of you don’t know is that I grew up in poor black neighborhoods until the age of 12 when my mom had enough and moved us to the country. I have seen first hand what blacks have to deal with, I know that they believe that all whites hate them, in fact I myself hated most of my race because of hearing this. Until I met whites that were different. Change does not come from giving out money, change comes from hard work that will take a long time. You have to change how people think and believe. Begging for money and demanding payment for something today’s US citizens did not do is not the answer.

*Please feel free to give your comments about this issue, but be polite about it or I will delete your comment. (it’s my blog after all) I will not delete your comment if it’s polite, but you disagree with me. I don’t work that way.

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The other day I was watching the news and they had a thing about blacks in America and how this election could bring about more problems that do good. It seems that many blacks figure that nothing is going to change. I remember hearing one man I went to school with talk about how the only way that a black is going to make it in the world is to act white. Now personaly I take offence to this as not every white acts the same, many try to act “black” in some peoples eyes.

Here is what I think. We are all human, there is no difference we act how we act. Obama is acting like a politicion. He speeks well and dresses well. How is that not acting like a person. Apparently some blacks think it’s a problem for a black person to speek and dress well? Give me a break! Now before you go off on me wondering why I’m rasist, I’m not. I’m just stateing an obvouse thing here. It seems that whenever a black person makes it by haveing these attributes other blacks feel they have to put them down. This also happends with white people. Mostly when a “white trash” person makes it big.

One person I know said something that would work for any race, “If black people would stop complaining I wouldn’t hate them so much, they are annoying!” Now replace black with any other race and it still fits. We all have our issues and concerns. I think instead of making it a black vs white issue maybe we should just make it a whole society issue. Once we can stop reverencing people as a race and as fellow American citizens maybe something good will actually be accomplished.

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I for one am happy that Obama is now the nominee. I think Clinton did a great job running, but I don’t feel she would make the best choice for president. I don’t mind her as a VP though as I think if both her and Obama could work together they would be a great team. They have many of the same goals and ideas.

My little brother said it best the other day. He said “if choosing a candidate takes this long I don’t think I want to deal with it when I can vote.” This is what worries me as I have noticed my little brother seems to think like most people his age. They are tired of hearing about it, mostly because they can’t vote. I hope it doesn’t turn them off to voting once they can. I do agree that the race for the democratic party went on too long and I’m happy to see it done and over with.

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I was reading last night how women are writing into the democratic committee saying that both Michigan and Florida should be seated and Clinton should get all of the votes. I disagree with this as in Michigan we only had one democratic choice and many people including myself did not vote because of that fact alone. We felt we had no actual choice.

What I am wondering with all of this is do the women who are so supportive of Hillary know what she actually wants to do as president or have they just decided she’s female and I love her! Keep in mind there is nothing wrong with your choice I’m just wondering. This thought came into my head last night when I read this article because a women stated that she would rather support McCain then Obama. The thing is when you look at both Democratic candidates they really do have most of the same goals. Trust me I have done a lot of research into this, both before January, when I still wasn’t sure who to vote for, and when they talked about having a re vote. I judge based on what they want to do and how the candidate presents themselves. I just feel that Hillary has kind of cracked under pressure and because of that resulted to tactics that just did not make me feel she would make a good president. Just my opinion.

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