Tom Bradley and the people who treated him

Tom Bradley was predicted to win via exit poll data, but in fact lost. The same suspicious phenomenon has occurred in a number of other races: Jesse Jackson for President, Harold Washington for Mayor of Chicago,  Douglass Wilder for Governor of Virginia, David Dinkins for Mayor of New York City, etc. While some of these races were still won by the Black candidate, the margin of victory was not consistent with the number of people who had claimed to have voted for them.

With McCain/Palin rallies starting to resemble lynching parties, one can’t help but to wonder how ready this county is for a Black president. But while we know where the loud and proud McCain supporters stand…what about the other White (or Asian or Latino folks)? Those who travel in circles where Obama is the candidate of choice, but who may quietly feel otherwise? Who are publicly supporting the Blue ticket because they are afraid of being called a racist if they claim otherwise…and are actually unable/unwilling/unsure about voting a Black man for President?

If this race has taught me anything, it has affirmed my long held belief that there is a large portion of the White American population that does not view African-Americans as Americans. I personally view myself as American-by-default, and whilst I may never be loud and proud, I will be damned if some fascist tells me that this country is not as much mine as it is his. Americans of all creeds and colors have a history of voting against their interests in order to support their party, race, gender or religious beliefs. Perhaps some of Barack’s audaciously hopefulness has rubbed off on me, but I really feel that folks are going to make the right choice this time around. How is everyone else feeling these days?

BTW- I realize that the tone of this article presupposes that all of you are Barack supporters. We here at Blind-I believe that to be true. However, if you are backing McCain…please go back to Vibe.com, mmmkay?

Anyway, I got something serious to talk to y’all about and I hope you’re listening. Now, the Hip-Hop community is all abuzz with Obama fever these days. Cats are shouting him out on songs (for better or worse), you see his face plastered on t-shirts all up and down the ave, etc. But did you know that 8 MILLION Black folk in this country aren’t registered to vote? And that had Ohio’s 270,000 unregistred Black voters stepped up to the plate, the state could have been won in the 2004 election? Had the same occurred in Florida as well, we could have avoided the past eight years of misery. And NOW look what we are facing:

Mickey and Mallory 2008

It is my fear that if John McCain and Sarah “You gotta be fucking kidding me” Palin are elected, we will all actually die. This is what I would imagine his first day in the Oval Office would look like…more info after the jump.

5:15-Arise
5:45-Morning cardio
5:47- Morning cardiopulmonary resuscitation
6:30- Breakfast (Baby heart and egg whites, decaf w/two Splendas, splash of skim).
7:00-Bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki for old-times sake
8:00-Worship and prayer time with the spirits of Hitler and Hussein
10:00- Meeting about educational disparities in the urban school system
10:02- Nap
12:00- Lunch (Blood of the lamb, hummus, pita, prunes)
12:30- Bombing of Atlanta, GA (known around the office as “Niggeronia”)
1:00- Press conference about terrorist attack on Nig….Atlanta
1:15- Follow-up on status of poisoning Earth’s water supply to bring the Second Coming
2:00- Afternoon cardio pulmonary resuscitation
3:00- Apocalypse

Even if I am a bit extreme in my predictions, you can’t tell me that what McCain has in store would be much better. If the octogenarian McCain can survive even a few moments in office (dude is one M. Night Shyamalan film away from death, k?), we are pretty much doomed. I picture mass suicides as the economy continues to tank and people go on unable to provide health care and housing for their families, a return to the abortion clinic bombing days as McCain works to overturn Roe V, Wade and perhaps even a race war. Not to mention McCain’s fervor to bomb and destroy Iran and continue the War On Iraqi Freedom for the rest of our lives.

And Palin? Good Lord. I don’t respect a person who preaches abstinence only education, only to turn up with a knocked up daughter. Her resume is laughable and I’d ignore her all together, if there weren’t so many idiotic Americans (particularly White women) who have actually been CHARMED by this douchebitch, just because she’s got some kids and some nice spectacles.

Listen up: if young people and Blacks do not go to the polls, idiotic Americans who feel McCain and Palin are “relatable” (because one is old and the other has a vagina) will be the ones to decide our fate. If you do not fully grasp the POWER of stupidity, please recall that George W. Bush won over people in 2000 because voters thought he was someone they could “have a beer with”. Eight years later, that “boring” Al Gore guy has become the charismatic winner of an Oscar, a Grammy and a Nobel Prize…not to mention helping to save the environment by sparking this “green” movement. Imagine what he could have done as President.

Yes, we can. Or else…