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I support my President!

Agreed. I don’t mean to imply that I will follow/support him blindly. I won’t/don’t. But until he gives ME a reason NOT to….;-)

» Posted By LuluMay On January 27, 2010 @ 2:05 pm

The White Elephant in the Room

Sweet Kalima. I am so with you but I also know that once we take a moment to breathe (and for me, have a few good hard crying sessions to get it all out) then we can harness our anger & passion & energy & fight back.

Sending you hugs & support, friend.

xoxo

Lulu

» Posted By LuluMay On September 22, 2009 @ 4:20 pm

Thanks for your kind words. I am from San Francisco (born & raised in the Haight-Ashbury in the 60’s) so in a sense I have been very protected from racism in my life. I am not naive; I know it exists. My own grandmother called me the N word when I was eight (that’s a story for another day. Sigh) but it is very easy to live here & “ignore” some of the ugly realities in our nation. SF is one of the most liberal patches of land in the nation & it is easy to dismiss Middle America b’c we don’t have to deal with it…until we do.

As for Affirmative Action, don’t even get me started LOL! I used to work as an admissions director at some of SF’s top private schools – the ONLY people who EVER benefited from AA were legacies & development prospects – ALL white, 90% male & the degree to which they were under qualified was DISGUSTING!!!! But they got in. Kids of color had to be above & beyond qualified – ALWAYS – esp if they were going to receive tuition aid…which 90% of them did.

xoxo

xoxo

» Posted By LuluMay On September 22, 2009 @ 4:17 pm

If you aren’t familiar with Tim Wise you should check him out. He has written several book, the most famous of which is “White Like Me.” he has written a new one about Obama which I’ve yet to read but just ordered on Amazon. Here is a bit of a review of his books as well as some quotes.

From Publishers Weekly

“Tim Wise examines the way in which institutional racism continues to shape the contours of daily life in the United States, and the ways in which white Americans reap enormous privileges from it. Wise

» Posted By LuluMay On September 19, 2009 @ 11:45 am

Thank you for your post. This subject has had me so distraught these days that I’ve had to step away from it all. Up till now I was naive enough to think that most racists Americans were “smart” enough to keep it to themselves especially when it comes to the President. As I bi-racial person myself attacks on him feel very personal to me.

The boldness with which they are showing their racism is unlike anything I’ve seen in my adult life. It really is.

I have to take some time to breathe & get my mental strength up to deal with it. I am working on a piece about the infamous “race card” we hear so much about.

One thing I will say is that, present company excluded I am SICK & TIRED of hearing White folk on TV ask OTHER white folk if they think this or that strikes them as racist.

Unless they are asking Tim Wise I don’t want to hear it.

» Posted By LuluMay On September 19, 2009 @ 11:36 am

Read My Lips: No Pubic Option!

“It’s SAD to see such UNPATRIOTIC and TREASONOUS Americans – criticizing a sitting President during a time of war. Don’t they realize that doing so damages the morale of the troops and only serves the enemy by “emboldening” them???”

Hmmm…where have I heard THAT before? where oh where…hmmm…Oh yeah….that is what THEY said about US for eight years..

Can’t wait for Rachel Maddow on Monday to continue to connect the Freedom Works, Glen Beck, Dick Armey dots.

» Posted By LuluMay On September 14, 2009 @ 1:51 am

Eight years ago today….

I know. I still get confused when I see the NY skyline. It USED to be that you could recognize it right away by the Towers; now I have to look at it for a second before I realize it is NY.

» Posted By LuluMay On September 11, 2009 @ 12:11 pm

So I guess this means Van Jones gets his job back now, right?

I was thinking about it even more last night & I came up with this: can you imagine if Obama started to get anger & riled up with them? Can you IMAGINE how they would spin that? Angry Black Man. And then it would fuel even more of the racist behavior & people would ACTUALLY think he deserves it.

BUT….when he SO calm & cool it makes them look SO petty & stupid..they can do ignorant on their own!

Peace

» Posted By LuluMay On September 11, 2009 @ 9:22 am

You can gouge me with overdraft fees, but please don’t give me health insurance!

Great post. I’m new here too. Welcome! Anytime I get an overdraft fee I call the bank & fight it & guess what? They usually remove it; which makes me think that it is all a farce! They just wanna see what they can get away with. Grrrr

» Posted By LuluMay On September 10, 2009 @ 9:15 pm

Hide the kids and double bolt all the doors

Thank you for a great post.

What struck me about the brilliance of his speech was that adults can learn something from it too! The notion that your past does not define you & that you can always learn & grow. I keep thinking of kids who heard this speech who have similar personal narratives as the President. Perhaps there is a kid whose mother was White (as was mine) & whose Black father left when they were two years old (as mine did); whose mother raised them as single parent at one point on welfare to make ends meet (as was the case with us); who had a parent that put education first so that we could have a private school education, eventually graduating from an Ivy League college (as was the case with me). I am a grown woman & even I am inspired by the President’s narrative which is so similar to my own. Heck, I actually lived it & it still gives me goose bumps to hear him tell “our story” ;-). Just imagine what a child, especially a child of color & even more specifically a young Black male, whose path as yet to be traveled can now dream for themselves when they see themselves in the President’s story?

The best part is hearing kids talk about what they got out of the speech. Kids are smarter than people think. One of my friends said her son, who us nine & HATES to read, picked up a book when he got home from school today instead of playing video games. She asked him what was up & he said, “I gotta start taking this stuff seriously like the President said”

And the most ironic thing is that the Wrong (my new name for the Right) is always talking about personal responsibility…and that is EXACTLY what his speech was about. Morons!

The notion of pulling your kid out of school to prevent them from hearing this speech borders on child abuse. Kids need to learn to develop critical thinking skills; but THAT would mean that they’d probably start to question mom & dad’s twisted logic & become anything BUT right-wingers (or should I say, Wrong-wingers).

And the BEST way to get a kid to do something is to tell them they CAN’T. The kids are going to want to see the speech even MORE now (hello you-tube).

I think the next speech he needs to give is to parents about common sense parenting skills.

» Posted By LuluMay On September 8, 2009 @ 10:00 pm

Is Our Children Learning?

Great post!

Remember when Bush read “My Pet Goat” to school kids on 9/11 in Florida?

Well, where was the outrage?

He was planting a seed in the minds of children to have a goat as a pet…which is ILLEGAL in many parts of the state of Florida!

» Posted By LuluMay On September 5, 2009 @ 1:14 pm

Partisanship: Are you on the RIGHT side?

Great post! I wanted to thank you for turning me on to this site!

Cheers!

Lulu

» Posted By LuluMay On September 5, 2009 @ 12:00 pm

40 is the New 14

I think the best thing about being a broad in my 40’s 😉 is that I simply don’t care what people think of me or if they like me. Actually I was the same when I was younger but now I am even more firm in that. I have enough friends; if someone doesn’t like me for whatever reason I figure they simply have bad taste & that I would not gain anything by knowing them.

The other thing I’ve learned thru lifes ups & downs is that I will be ok. When I was in my 20’s if something went wrong it could send me under the covers in the fetal position. NOW, it’s like, Ok, bring it on. I think that has been so liberating; there is NOTHING we can’t handle. We just take a deep breath & carry on.

ROAR!

» Posted By LuluMay On September 8, 2009 @ 10:34 pm

Great post! The older I get the younger I feel…and act. When I was 11 people thought I was 15 (I was my full 5’10” by then); when I was 15 people thought I was 25; when I was 25 people thought I was 18; when I was 30 people thought I was 25 & now that I am 43 people think I’m 30! LOL I’m not sure if it due to good genes, an addiction to under-eye cream or my overall lack of maturity. LOL. I actually think it’s because I work with kids for a living (tho now I’m outta work which is aging me rapidly) which gives me an excuse to keep up to date with all of their pop references & culture which is not always fun (have you ever sat through the mumble fest that is “Gossip Girl”? They LOVE that show) but it enables me to relate to them) & they keep me young at heart. I am constantly impressed with how politically aware & involved they are too!

My life may not be what I thought it would be at this point (I’m actually not sure if I actually had any idea of what it would be) but it is a life that has been full of adventures & one that I can reflect upon with pride…and I do believe the best is yet to come.

The kids are alright!

» Posted By LuluMay On September 8, 2009 @ 10:26 pm