Like a crow chasing a butterfly...

[treize64]

I'd heard talk about the Susan Boyle phenomenon and I guess my take on it, in addition to what everyone else has already said about it, is that in today's age with all these internet memes going around and whipping through the web like wildfire, it's nice to have one come along that is an unabashed and selfless celebration of someone. It wasn't

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[nwhyte]

If I were Thaçi I wouldn't have announced it like this - allows people to pretend to be him!!!!!

(Though Vlora Çitaku, the DFM, is on my facebook f-list and I'm pretty sure it is really her.)

[treize64]

Although, I did look up, and he did have his own Politician page, of which people could become fans. I wonder if there already might be some Thaci imitators up there. Hmm. ::chinscratch::

[matociquala]

God, that's infuriating. I'm so sorry. (We still don't achieve a world without institutionalized racism by ignoring the fact that it exists.)

[treize64]

The most frightening thing about it is that the generation that we competitors belong to is supposedly the generation that elected Obama, the generation that was slated to make actual progress on the discussion of race in America.

And then something like this happens.

One step forward, four steps back, I guess.