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There was that moment last night when Obama was ahead but there was the possibility it could go either way and they said that the California polls were closing in a minute and then all of a sudden BAM a graphic of Obama saying "the next president of the united states" with no warning, no buildup, WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT, the commentator's voice with the same tone of voice we have announcing that it was done, over, he'd won.

It had gone relatively smoothly up until then but I've gotten used to massive disappointment when it comes to things governmental so until that moment I couldn't believe it was going to happen. And then it did. The sense of relief was overwhelming. I cried.

I kept looking at the pictures of incredulous black people and I thought of how I would feel if a gay or lesbian person was elected president, a powerful reversal of everything I'd learned from a lifetime of discrimination and hatred. That made me cry more imagining how overwhelming it must be.

Old, tired, hard Jesse Jackson loses it:





One of the secondary reasons to be happy about Obama's win is the high probability that his wife Michelle will be allowed to speak in public. I said before he seems more nerdy-smart than black, but she... she is a major BLACK WOMAN. I am ready to worship her.

But if she wants to be worshipped, and why wouldn't she, she HAS to do something about her clothes. What was that monstrosity she was wearing last night? It looked like an egg-holder.

I am filled with rage over Prop 8. I am obsessed with revenge fantasies. How do these fucktards continue to have a say over my life? I hate them. I don't know what to do, but I really to wish them ill.

Let's say Grace

I've missed Grace Jones. Watching her was part of the fun of listening to her, and this video from her new release is simple but incredibly engaging and all about the fierceness of deformity.

And here she is back in 2002 singing a duet with Pavarotti:

I was lucky enough to see her live a few times. She was FIERCE.

and before she was arty-fierce, she brought radical attitude to disco music:

Grace. Before you eat.

This whole black people don't support us in Ca thing

It was bitter-tasting last night to see black people celebrating Obama's win last night and imagining what that must feel like what knowing that my access to equal rights and participation had been voted down.

I was looking at this:



Yes, it's disappointing that black people as a group are statistically less likely to support gay rights but to blame that for the passage of Prop 8 doesn't hold up. The split between whites was a close 49/51, and a 3% change in that split could have made the difference. To contrast, because of the much smaller number of voters it would have taken closer to a 20% change in the ratio in black people.

When it's close you look for anything that could have made a difference but I'm just as concerned about those 3 million+ bigoted white voters who voted for it as I am the 700K bigoted black voters.