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Current Events => Archives => Politics => Election 2008 => Topic started by: CharlesD on November 02, 2008, 06:12:54 PM
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I run a small expedited trucking company, quite small actually since I drive one of the two vehicles, and I've been stuck down here in Orlando for a week waiting on a repair. That means I've been hanging out at the Extended Stay. I thought it would be repaired yesterday so I had checked out and returned the rental car. Of course, it wasn't done and I was told it would be Monday afternoon, which meant I had to go get another rental car and go back and check into the Extended Stay for a couple more days.
SO...I went back to the motel yesterday, parked in the lot and walked back inside to check into another room. I did walk by some bushes on the way in but didn't notice anyone hiding behind any of them, but I wasn't exactly looking that closely, so someone could have been there. I walked up to the desk and the same young attractive black lady (Am I allowed to notice that without being racist?) was there that had been there when I checked out in the morning. We had exchanged small talk throughout the week and she asked me, "Back so soon? I thought you were leaving today." I then said, "Well, my van won't be ready until Monday, so I'm going to need a room for a couple more nights." She asked me if I was going to wait around until I got a load out of Florida and I told her that I needed to get home by Tuesday so I could vote. She asked me why I didn't vote absentee and I told her that my absentee ballot hadn't arrived in the mail even though I had mailed in the request. She said, "You must be dedicated to drive that far just to vote." I replied, "Yes, because this one is too important to sit out." She smiled and said, "I voted yesterday. I voted for Obama!" The utter excitement was so evident. Then she asked me, "Are you going to vote for him too?" I said, "No, I'm voting for McCain." You could have heard a pin drop.
I politely asked her why she voted for Obama and she said, "He inspires me...we need change...and he's...well...he would be the first." I could tell she wanted to say that she was excited to vote for a black candidate, but she didn't want to come out and say that to the white man on the other side of the counter. I think I shocked her when I said, "I think it would be exciting to have a black president, but I just don't think he's the right one at the moment. I just don't like his policies." She asked me what those policies were and I said, "I think his tax policy will hurt small businesses and could cause a loss in jobs, and I run a small business. Also, the last time a president raised taxes like that during a recession, we ended up with the Great Depression. I'm also pro life and he supports abortion on demand without restrictions." She just stood there silent for a couple minutes and then said, "I haven't heard all that. I thought he was pro life." I then pulled out my wallet and said, "By the way, my wife is also from Kenya and is actually from the same tribe as Obama's father." I then showed her a photo of my wife, who is very obviously not white, and I think that made me ok in her eyes. I couldn't be a racist if I was married to an African, I guess. Then I took my room key, she told me to have a nice stay, and I went to my room. On the way through the lobby this afternoon I noticed that she was behind the desk with another employee and I overheard her saying to him, "I wish I would have known that before I voted." :thatsright:
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Great story, sir, and I salute you.
I'm assuming however the last paragraph was written tongue-in-cheek, so as to be sarcastic to the primitives?
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I'm afraid we'll hear a lot of that in the next few years if he wins this.
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Great story, sir, and I salute you.
I'm assuming however the last paragraph was written tongue-in-cheek, so as to be sarcastic to the primitives?
The dialogue happened as written, actually. Maybe some of my commentary was a little bit on the sarcastic side. That picture of my wife has saved my bacon on several occasions. I feel free to discuss racial issues with blacks because once they find out I'm married to one they cut me a lot of slack. At least that's been my experience so far.
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That's the problem...... many black people are so enamoured by the thought of a black President that they can't see the forest for the trees. It's almost as if they think, "He's black, so he MUST be the one to vote for". It's sad, in reality. As I've said many times before, "I don't not like Obama because of his race. It's his policies that disturb me."
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These same people would not be voting for Michael Steele if he was the candidate. I think it is the issue of voting for an African American but they are also in favor of his "I'll take care of you" policies. Conservative blacks do not have the same political following as liberal blacks do. JMHO
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These same people would not be voting for Michael Steele if he was the candidate. I think it is the issue of voting for an African American but they are also in favor of his "I'll take care of you" policies. Conservative blacks do not have the same political following as liberal blacks do. JMHO
Conservative Blacks are not considered "black." They are considered Uncle Toms because they had the audacity of leaving the paternalistic democrat plantation and being uppity niggas.
Look at the unbridled and unprotested racism against Colin Powell and Condeleeza.