This blog has moved!
Posted on: November 19, 2008
Hello! Well I’ve been blogging since 2004 and it’s time to move the blog to my domain on the The Imaji Nation. This will be the last post at this url. So please join me at:
www.theimajination.com/blog
See you there!
Yorkali
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I agree with him.
Posted on: November 15, 2008
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After 9/11, this country had a lot of compassion from countries around
the world. Within a short amount of time, we were hated. How did that
happen? We had no dialog with other countries because they just plain
hated us. I think we know who is responsible for that. What’s
different today is that we have a new chance, a new beginning. The
world is excited about Barack Obama and the new United States.
Let’s keep it that way!Donald J. Trump
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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) — Miriam Makeba, the South
African singer who wooed the world with her sultry voice but was banned
from her own country for more than 30 years under apartheid, died after
collapsing on stage in Italy. She was 76.
Over her career, Miriam Makeba sang with performers including Nina Simone, Harry Belafonte and Paul Simon.
In her dazzling career, Makeba performed with musical legends from
around the world — jazz maestros Nina Simone and Dizzy Gillespie,
Harry Belafonte, Paul Simon — and sang for world leaders such as John
F. Kennedy and Nelson Mandela.
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4000 words
Posted on: November 9, 2008
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If a picture is worth a thousand words…here’s four thousand.
Thoughts from a Non-Voter
Posted on: November 4, 2008
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As I watch these united states vote in this major election, there are a gazillion things running through my head. I’m thinking about Obama up in the polls, the death of his Grandma, the fact that I can’t vote as a non-citizen, why do I even care even though I don’t have a say.
I have been blogging and twittering and posting to Facebook like a rabid pundit. I go to CNN and the Huffington Post waaay too often. I have followed every little detail and update. It wasn’t until this very morning though that one of the most insightful little tit-bits ran across my eyes. I was able to watch it live.
As Dennis Hopper related that short anecdote about Obama. I thought of many things. The most important though occured to me as I started to write this post. Why do I care about this election and I can’t vote. The story that he relates about him in the elevator with Barack was a penetrating insight into the person that Barack seems to be. If he truly is this way it shows why people have been fired up and ready to go for him at a moments call. Why his color is not a scar, he just happens to be black (or half black if you wanna split hairs). Granted, lets say he is just putting on, lets say he is disengenous. I strongly doubt that is the case though.
But back to the main question, why do I care, because Barack is not a candidate that one simply votes for. He is an idea that the world has been hoping for. The idea that a politician can be decent, thoughtful, sincere and maybe even honest.
If he truly is all these things, it will give people that truly want to help thier countries and communities the vigor, the fire and the passion to run for public office because they can say, have you heard of Obama, do you know of Barack. He is not like the rest. He will be the measure, the new standard by which every single politician will be judged, even IF he does not win.
A transformational figure he truly is. if Barack was merely just another mawgah (slim) basketball-playing, smooth talking politician from Chicago that just happened to have a white mom and a black Dad, today’s election would be between McCain and Hillary. No, Barack is an idea. He is a fruit of the global Zeitgist that refuses to be unheard anymore.
May God bless America, and everywhere else.
