I know that many of us have been working very hard to get out the vote so I wanted to give you a heads up about an incident that helped bouy me up.
I suspect that if the turn out of black and other minority voters is high then we in good shape.
I suspect that the role that black and hispanics voters will play in tommorrow's election has not been fully appreciated and it my serve to wipe the smiles off many faces of the punditry class.
Can you imagine what the tea party haters will do if their media-guaranteed victory does not come to pass???
An an unapologetic liberal who happens to be of African descent, the past two years have been very painful for me to watch so much open racial hate directed at someone trying to clean up another person's mess.
Any one who had something demeaning to say about President Obama and the First family has said it and been rewarded by the approving vocal proportion of the citizenry and/or left unchallenged by a disaapproving proportion of the citizenry. Both are not good responses to open bigotry
So today as the final count nears and I see the smirks of tacid appreciation among so many in the media about the damage done to this historical Presidency, I was feeling very low.
But as I was completing my work shift and heading home, something happened to lift my spirits. I go to bed happy tonight because I overheard 5 young black men (in their very twenties) shout out to each other and to any one within ear shot the following: "do not forget to vote tommorrow man, ... they are trying to destroy this first black President", anothers answered; "of course I have to get up early and go vote, this is very important" .. .. "I will call you to remind you to vote".
I did not turn my heard to directly acknowledge their conversation but I started to dance a few steps as I headed out the door. No matter what happens, these "unethusiastic young voters" made my day and lifted me out of gloommy thoughts.
Once again thank you everybody for ALL you have done to move this country foward - especially those many people on this site and else where in America who demonstrate repeatedly that the judge President Obama and other minorities by the content of their character