Instead of writing that paper
First of all this is really effing cool:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/talking_point/7708582.stm
Second:
www.petitiononline.com/seg5130/petition.html
Lastly:
I guess I have a post I must make. It is a historical day. No, I will not go on about our elected "Black" President and all of the historical significance surrounding a racist America gone humble. No. This is so much more than that. I don't know about all of you, but I voted because I have hope. I am tired of failed policy after policy repeating and evolving from a fundamentally immoral base.
I guess it is more than having Barak Obama as our president, and more of the idea that we all got him there. That, on a whole, this country is tired of the shit it's been dragged through for the last eight years. Despite the vote not being that big of a landslide, there is a certain cohesiveness in my hopes, rationale, and thoughts that I share with the people around me.
I could continue to be cheesey and explain how unbelievably uplifted I felt when I saw Obama come up on the stage to talk to the 250,000+ people that surrounded him, but I will keep it short.
This country, and this world has a lot to do, but with Barak Obama as my president, I feel that much more obliged to do something. Motivated to get involved because I see what happened, and what can happen. Even if Proposition 8 failed, there is a heavy voice trying to overturn it and I want to join.
I guess this is what nationalism feels like, but this must be a new kind. Besides feeling warmhearted about the people in this country that yearned for something different as much as I did, I see it in an international wave. I hope globalization can unite a global effort. This year at UCSD I am seriously amazed at the diversity in thought and philosophy around the world, but I don't think that will hold us back from a universal attempt to make things better.
I'm way too optimistic. Learning about Sudan and Rwanda for the fourth or fifth time but on another level of consciousness seeing a huge change in the political atmosphere of our Country is very contradicting, but I've come to terms with the fact that nothing will ever be perfect.
All of the voices I hear that whine about America becoming the "United Socialist Republic" because we have a Democrat for a President don't even know the meaning of leftist politics. Spend a weekend in Eastern Europe.
All of the voices I hear boo at the feet of Mccain when we addresses Obama should know that that won't fix anything and we're going to need to work together even if that means you might have to let a gay couple get married and experience the same rights as you .
There is so much America has to do to gain back international respect, I just hope that we can make a difference this time around.
Goodnight.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/talking_point/7708582.stm
Second:
www.petitiononline.com/seg5130/petition.html
Lastly:
I guess I have a post I must make. It is a historical day. No, I will not go on about our elected "Black" President and all of the historical significance surrounding a racist America gone humble. No. This is so much more than that. I don't know about all of you, but I voted because I have hope. I am tired of failed policy after policy repeating and evolving from a fundamentally immoral base.
I guess it is more than having Barak Obama as our president, and more of the idea that we all got him there. That, on a whole, this country is tired of the shit it's been dragged through for the last eight years. Despite the vote not being that big of a landslide, there is a certain cohesiveness in my hopes, rationale, and thoughts that I share with the people around me.
I could continue to be cheesey and explain how unbelievably uplifted I felt when I saw Obama come up on the stage to talk to the 250,000+ people that surrounded him, but I will keep it short.
This country, and this world has a lot to do, but with Barak Obama as my president, I feel that much more obliged to do something. Motivated to get involved because I see what happened, and what can happen. Even if Proposition 8 failed, there is a heavy voice trying to overturn it and I want to join.
I guess this is what nationalism feels like, but this must be a new kind. Besides feeling warmhearted about the people in this country that yearned for something different as much as I did, I see it in an international wave. I hope globalization can unite a global effort. This year at UCSD I am seriously amazed at the diversity in thought and philosophy around the world, but I don't think that will hold us back from a universal attempt to make things better.
I'm way too optimistic. Learning about Sudan and Rwanda for the fourth or fifth time but on another level of consciousness seeing a huge change in the political atmosphere of our Country is very contradicting, but I've come to terms with the fact that nothing will ever be perfect.
All of the voices I hear that whine about America becoming the "United Socialist Republic" because we have a Democrat for a President don't even know the meaning of leftist politics. Spend a weekend in Eastern Europe.
All of the voices I hear boo at the feet of Mccain when we addresses Obama should know that that won't fix anything and we're going to need to work together even if that means you might have to let a gay couple get married and experience the same rights as you .
There is so much America has to do to gain back international respect, I just hope that we can make a difference this time around.
Goodnight.