In reference to my earlier post "Race in the Race"

Glad to see that there are other people out there bothered by what Ms. Campbell Brown refers to as race-baiting.



(P.S. I love her and she's from Louisiana/Mississippi!)

Use your voice

First they came for the Communists,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a Jew.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me,
and by that time there was no one
left to speak up for me.

by Rev. Martin Niemoller, 1945

Is Obama the Messiah?

This is crazy guys: some people in the U.S. are calling Obama the Messiah! Check it out:



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Jim Kitchens for Supreme Court Justice District 1 (Mississippi)

This gentleman is running for Mississippi Supreme Court Justice District 1. For those of you who don't understand the Mississippi dialect, he's talking about the current controversy in Mississippi going on right now because the Mississippi government is trying to take away our right to elect judges! Crazy right? They want to begin appointing the judges instead of permiting us to take part in our constitutional right to vote. With all the corruption and scandals going on among our Mississippi politicians lately, it's definitely not the time to give these politicians the power of appointment of judges.

He begins his speech with his story: a great example of God taking the poor and humble and moving them to great places. Amen to that.



Check out this piece on Kitchens's website for more info on the judicial elections: http://www.kitchensforjustice.com/2008/05/protecting-your-right-to-elect-judges/

Our position in Georgia

Please note, I have friends from Georgia who are on the side of Georgia & the U.S., and I have friends from Russia who are on Russia's side. And thus I want to reinforce that I am very sorry for the turmoil that's been going on back home.

Third party vote - 1st video!

Check out my first ever video blog entry below! I realize the quality isn't perfect, but be patient as I try and improve on the clips' presentation. Besides - the message is the thing that counts!!

Race in the Race

(Yeah I know, the title is super funny...hehe.)

Now living in Spain, I often forget how obsessed America is over race. I guess it makes sense; it was only half a century ago that the Jim Crow laws were intact, and not until the early-90s when it became politically incorrect in Mississippi to run private schools and country clubs that blatantly upheld rules prohibiting blacks from entering. (Growing up, my parents wouldn't allow me to go with my white friends to country clubs, primarily for this reason.)

But the race issues in the presidential election are quite misunderstood. Everywhere I look on the internet people are calling McCain a bigot & a racist. I'm not a McCain-lover myself, and for sure, many things he's said do imply that he's a racist. But certain things people claim to be racist comments are just ridiculous. For example, one blog claimed that McCain's ad referring to Obama as "disrespectful" to McCain is an implied racist order to blacks. Firstly, that's a little stupid and way too read-into. Besides, there are much more sophisticated arguments one could come up with against the McCain campaign.

For some reason everyone seems to forget Sen. Joe Biden's numerous racial slips. (Still, I disagree that Biden's comments about Indians at Dunkin Donuts was racist, however, most def stupid to say on TV.) There was one in particular, though, that went a bit too far to be called a slip, when he said (referring to Obama), "I mean, you've got the first sort of mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy." That statement was clearly racist and ignorant.

Again, we Americans need to chill on the subject of race if we want to progress. I agree with Ashton Kutcher when he refers to the making of "Guess Who" and says (from interview with Orange County Register), "There's that scene in the movie when I'm telling black jokes, which makes everybody uncomfortable. When jokes like that don't make people uncomfortable, we'll have made some progress." Unfortunately, what Biden said wasn't a joke, and appears to be how he feels. That's a great movie by the way.

What I've been doing...

During my time of intense exams up here in Madrid, I've taken some time away from the blog. But no worries, I'm coming back stronger than ever :). Lately there've been two issues on my chest to write about. Firstly, Americans have this obsession with racism in the election I'd like to touch on. Then, I'm going to approach the topic of voting for an independent candidate.

P.S. I'm getting back to all my friends who've responded to my previous posts: I really appreciate y'all's opinions. Everything's just been hectic over here in Europa.

& stay tuned: I'll be publishing on the blog soon my article on the U.S. Crisis & Bailout Plan that's getting published at our on-campus newspaper "La Voz."

Michel Polnareff Love me please love me

So I haven't had a lot of time to post lately because I've been studying for exams. I still got one more exam on Monday so keep prayin for me!

I first heard this song about a year ago, on the EU YouTube site. It was in the background on a video promoting European films. It's a classic.

Que cancion lindisima!

Fields, from Washington Times, criticizes youth vote!

Yesterday, while I was looking at the "Rock the Vote" website, I came across a blog criticizing Suzanne Fields's opinion on the the validity of the youth vote. Fields, a syndicated columnist for the Washington Times, wrote this past May that the youth may not know what these presidential debates are all about, considering that "The young have been short-changed by the educationists for decades, not learning very much." She even had the nerve to pick fun at the "Rock the Vote" movement by titling her column "Rock the Ignorance."

What surprised me more was when she said that a major problem in our education system are the textbooks that are "spiced with anti-Western criticism." And most of her evidence of this criticism and "political correctness" is the lack of anti-Islamic messages in today's textbooks. Are you kidding me? Does she really think having a more open-minded view of the world makes our generation less educated? And she writes for a major media publication?

Although our generation has its faults, the youth today are unquestionably more connected globally that previous generations, and OUR views on foreign policy are key to this election. At my American university in Madrid, I'm surrounded by Arabs, Africans, Western & Eastern Europeans, Latinos, and more. My parents and grandparents never had this opportunity. Living in Mississippi during desegregation, my parents didn't go to school with any blacks until they were in their mid-high school years. I, on the other hand, grew up going to a 95% black high school and junior high. And you're telling me this young, globalized world view isn't valid in the election?


Check out her article for yourself: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/may/22/rock-the-ignorance-1836/
And the Rock the Vote blog criticizing her article: http://www.blog.rockthevote.com/2008/05/washington-times-youth-vote-ignorant.html

¡Que fuerte me parece!

Handlebars by Flobots

When my brother introduced this song to me a few weeks ago, I was like, dude what's up with these goofy handlebar lyrics? Then I listened to it, and I realized it's super deep. The song's about the path we've taken in America, and America's hard-core control over the world.



The Flobots are becoming major on the web: their video on YouTube has a new comment every 2 minutes (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuK2A1ZqoWs). They've appeared on TV with Carson Daly and Jay Leno, and on the Alex Jones Show. They also performed for Rock the Vote's recent concert in LA.