Well, okay, some people can touch his hair...

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Saturday September 22, 2012 · 7:06 PM PDT

2012/09/22 · 19:06

Almost exactly four years ago this week, I, terran, your resident onery lurking black dreadlocked atheist commie mommy, wrote a diary about why some [white] people feel entitled to touch black people's hair. The diary got some rather controversial responses, as most topics on race do here at kos and everywhere else.

I warned everyone not to touch President Obama's hair, in the off chance that he actually became the President. And you got close enough to touch his hair.

I have since retracted my blanket statement. Some people, if they ask nicely, are allowed to touch the President's hair. Are even encouraged to do so.

http://presidentobamawithbabies.tumblr.com/...

Vote for Obama, but Don’t Touch his Hair

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Thursday October 09, 2008 · 8:24 AM PDT

2008/10/09 · 08:24

In the interest of full disclosure, I am a black person of African American descent. I have light skin, "exotic" features and wear my hair in long dreadlocks. My husband is white and he is allowed to touch my hair.

I believe that there are some white people who are going to have a very hard time adjusting to an Obama presidency. I’m not talking about hard-core racists. They are too busy ironing their sheets and soaking crosses in gasoline to learn how to use the typewriter with the teevee on top. They are already a lost cause and need to die already. I don’t think too many of them are on Daily Kos. The few that are here stopped reading this post at "I am a bla—". I am talking about the moderately racist person, the kind of person who "just isn’t comfortable with Obama because.....". The kind of nice, intelligent person who does not think that they are racist at all.

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Would you touch President Obama's hair?

201 votes Vote Now!

Would you touch President Obama's hair?

Never. No way. No how. May my hand wither first.

37 votes

Maybe. If he was not looking.

4 votes

Maybe. If Michelle was not looking. The man is too fine.

66 votes

Yes! Yes! Yes, I can!

12 votes

Like the Secret Service would let that happen.

44 votes

I would rather touch Markos' hair

4 votes

I would rather touch pie.

34 votes

Give us health care-- or at least give us death

terran

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Wednesday March 26, 2008 · 12:04 PM PDT

2008/03/26 · 12:04

Sometimes you have to think about dying, and how you want to go. Last Friday Mr. terran and I went to visit a friend, let’s call him Barry. Barry was diagnosed with incurable cancer last fall and the doctors have given him two more weeks to live. Barry’s wife is mentally handicapped and right before his cancer diagnosis, Barry had been laid off his job. He had not yet reached retirement age. As my husband says, they did not hit the life lottery.

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Would you like some kinds of assisted suicide to be legal?

55 votes Vote Now!

Would you like some kinds of assisted suicide to be legal?

Yes, we should be able to have death with dignity on our own terms

24 votes

Yes, but only if very tightly supervised to prevent abuse

21 votes

No, it is too risky-- a slippery slope threatening to handicapped and ill people

4 votes

No, I want to be kept alive as long as possible no matter what

0 votes

I want to die by pie

1 vote

My relatives would off me for my Ipod and the leftovers in my fridge

5 votes

Katrina was a right wing plot

terran

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Friday September 16, 2005 · 12:29 PM PDT

2005/09/16 · 12:29

My tinfoil take on the federal response to Katrina:

I try very hard not to buy into conspiracies, but I am wearing a tinfoil hat right now. It seems more than a little suspect that the POTUS was so obviously not interested in the hurricane. How could his handlers let that happen to the number one Compassionate Conservative ^TM? The vice president is usually sent to oversee something if the president is involved in some serious birthday guitar eating and cake playing. Darth Cheney of course was unable to be reached, undoubtedly tangled up in his fishing tackle.

The Bush gang decided in advance not to fund the levee repairs. They put incompetent people in place to deal with hurricanes and floods. FEMA is not just refusing to save people--it is refusing to let anyone else save people! Bodies are floating in the streets, and the federal government's reaction is to refuse to help? And the head of FEMA is some loser Lassie wouldn't hire to oversee a disaster rescue? And they are all college drinking buddies? Could this get any worse? Oh yeah, Karl Rove is going to be in charge of rebuilding....

Capitalism and other Problems: A Political Economy Primer

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Friday March 18, 2005 · 10:53 AM PST

2005/03/18 · 10:53

Capitalism and other Problems: A Political Economy Primer on Capitalism, Communism, Dictatorship and Democracy

One of the most frustrating aspects of today's political discourse (or what passes for it these days) is that commentators throw around terms like "capitalism", "democracy" "privatization" and so forth without defining them clearly. Then they can always deny that they said what they said, because that was not what they really meant. If you want to critique capitalism, you get accused of hating America, or democracy or freedom. WTF?

I want to begin a discussion of alternatives to our disastrous political economy, so I will start off by defining some terms. This is my first diary. Please question, comment, complain.
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