Cheat To Win

This basically captures all of the zen-like positive energy coming out of the inauguration on Monday for me.

Absolutely enraptured with this photo.

My love for him keeps growing when I least expect it.

HBO is developing a sequel to Game Change (sadlynot entitled Game Change 2: More Games, Less Change) based on the 2012 election. Like Game Change, which eventually went on to win four Emmys, the movie will be based on a book by Mark Halperin and New York’s own John Heilemann. Halperin and Heilemann are currently working on Double Down: Game Change 2012 with the intention of a fall 2013 release. The film will follow after. In related news, Julianne Moore just bought a Paul Ryan wig.  

I cannot wait to breathlessly read this absurdly biased well-researched book and then host a party for the premiere on HBO.  I am not kidding in the slightest.

I believe the children are our future; teach them well and let them lead the way.

Proud to do my civic duty. Vote - people died to give you that opportunity.

All y’all are basic bitches. I’m ready to storm this town tonight.

Mic drop.

Mr. Obama and Ruby Bridges Hall, the first black child to integrate an elementary school in the South, admiring the Norman Rockwell painting of her marching into school, which he hung outside the Oval Office.

Source: NY Times

While some may think it complimentary to be considered “magical,” it is infantilizing and offensive because it suggests black excellence is so shocking it can only come from a source that is supernatural. To accept a black leader who is extraordinary yet so human that he cannot be magical is an entirely different prospect than electing a black superhero. Anyone would vote for a superhero who lived up to my mom’s standard of having to be twice as good. But for it to embrace a nonmagical black person who cannot promise anything but hope, intelligence, sweat and experience, now that comes closer to equality. Equality is freedom from having to be twice as good to get ahead.

Yet again Touré drives home the all too important point regarding the strains put on African-Americans in contemporary society, and why this is election is even more important than the history of 2008.

I get the feeling David Horsey understands.

I wanna be like Scott Van Duzer.  I wanna hug Barack Obama.

The best part? Van Duzer is a Republican.

You say you’re looking for a new cover photo on Facebook?  May I suggest this one?

This is even better than the last one.

This photo could not have existed four years ago.

It means a lot to me to see it today.