Forgot to mention this yesterday: during the primaries, I had an argument with someone. She told me that she was voting for Hillary in part because she was afraid that if Obama was assassinated, there would be a “race war”. Which I think:

1. is unlikely
2. she didn’t really believe
3. if she did, that’s a crap reason to not vote for someone.

I wouldn’t care if she went for Hill because she didn’t buy into the hype surrounding Obama, but to say, “well, that candidate inspires and moves people so much that there could be a huge conflict if he were to get killed, so I’d better play it safe and vote for the other one, I hope she can somehow gain enough momentum to beat the Republican candidate by being less inspiring”, well, that’s kinda sad, innit?

But then I found out that she was actually voting for Hillary because “it’s time to have a woman in the White House”. Which is funny, because while that mode of thinking would make her “race war” comment more plausible, none of the black people I’ve talked to lately are voting for Obama just because he’s black¹, though George did mention that a President Obama would kind of raise the bar for black role models in the political realm.

Anyhow, old news. I’m just trying to get the election noise out of my system so I can vote, watch, laugh/cry, and have a drink when its all over. (For now.)

Some newspaper ran an article recently about people worrying about what they’ll be obsessed over once the election is finally over. To those people: hey. Winning the election does not mean you’ve won the game. Winning the election means you have a better hand for the next round.²

¹Yes, “black”, not “half-black”. Until a bunch of white people suddenly liked a black guy, I don’t remember anyone using “half-black” or “partly black” or anything of the like since the time one’s legal status depended on it³. Most black people whose families have been at least a few generations in the USA are not 100% of African ancestry, but that doesn’t make them less than fully black in the American vernacular, does it? Edit: aaand courtesy of an xkcd reddit post on exactly this subject, here’s a link: Who is Black? One Nation’s Definition, by James F. Davis.

²of high-stakes poker played with money you don’t actually have.

³Also, there may have been a period of my life when I confused “macaroon” and “octaroon”.

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