Dawn Is Me

Before this amazing week is completely gone, I wanted to give a brief nod to the historic event most of us watched on Tuesday afternoon.

Not being much given to schlock, I won’t gush. But I do want to share a musical tribute to the event recorded by Da G.

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[-sniff- Mother is so very proud of you, darling ... ]

I figured I’d better come in here and write something before you guys decided I’d killed myself after that last post.

Generally speaking, I try to leave the political commentary to my other blog. And I’m not going to get into a long song-and-dance tonight.

But I do have to say that I find it rather amazing that I was born at a time when black Americans were routinely denied the chance to even cast a vote in certain parts of this country and now we have a serious black contender running as the Democratic nominee for President of the United States.

Now (since the primaries showed us that there are still places in these United States where as much as a third of white voters will refuse to vote for somebody just because they’re black), as the general election gets under way, we all get to see just how racist we still are.

Should be interesting.

If you live in one of those 24 states like I do, don’t forget to vote tomorrow.