"Joe,
I went to the Allen Fire Company at 11:30 today to vote with my 20-year old son and my 12-year old in tow. While we were in line, an elderly woman was escorted to the front of the line. We discovered that this woman had just turned 100 years old yesterday and was still performing her civic duty. I'm not sure who she voted for, nor does it matter. But the touching thing is the fact that this 100 year old woman was black and possibly during her last election, was able to see a black man running for the office of President for the 1st time.
Mudslinging aside, whether you are Republican or Democrat, it really makes you realize how far our country has come in the past 100 years.
Tracy"
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God bless her. With her wisdom, I have no fear she went for God, family, and country.
ReplyDeleteObama is not black. Why can;\'t people get this straight.
ReplyDeleteAlso, Alan Keys has been on the ballot before so he was the first real black person to run for President and I would vote for him over Obama any day. Heck, I would vote for him over McCain.
The thought is touching though. I think it's awesome that she can still cast her vote and make a difference in our country.
Obama is not black.
ReplyDeleteWhat is he, dare I ask?
I am curious, why don't you consider Senator Obama black?
ReplyDeleteBarack Hussein Obama is not half black. If elected, he would be the first Arab-American President, not the first black President. Barack Hussein Obama is 50% Caucasian from his mother's side and 43.75% Arabic and 6.25% African from his father's side. While Barack Hussein Obama's father was from Kenya , his father's family was mainly Arabs.. Barack Hussein Obama's father was only 12.5% African and 87.5% Arab (his father's birth certificate even states he's Arab, not African ).
ReplyDeleteHis mother was white, therefore no more than 50% black. His father was 25% black, therefoe he is only12.5% black.
ReplyDeleteJesus Christ, listen to you. Here is a WONDERFUL story someone wrote in, and you people just HAD to find a way to get ugly about it.
ReplyDeleteYou ought to be ashamed of yourselves!
Joe, I hate that you have posted a lot of the outrageous sh*t you have, and this one decent moment does not make me turn the other way on all the other stuff...
But I DO THANK YOU for posting Tracy's story.
WHICH IS WHAT AMERICA IS ABOUT, for the REST OF YOU WHO MISSED IT!!!
God bless this fine old lady for voting and God bless America!
Im happy for her and i see the beauty the tumblers have shown, how-ever on a realistic perspective were all slaves now, slave to a process that has been corrupted by cash and greed and lack of principle. What if she was really sad at the state of our culture today. i would love to be able to enter her Mirror of life, history abounds.
ReplyDeleteHis father was from Kenya. An African country. Therefore African American.
ReplyDeleteMardela==Hes Maloto nor is he african american.He has no slavery in his family tree.
ReplyDeleteApparently, many missed the point. Obama is the first black man to have a major party's endorsement and has a real chance of being the first black President. For this woman to have come to this point to see this event is overwhelming. Why can't you nay-sayers spread your hate on another article of this website and leave the one truly positive story alone?
ReplyDeleteBut for those who need clarification: Many races are considered black or white in addition to their nationalities. For example, there are black-Hispanics and white-Hispanics.
I submitted this to Joe so that we could be grateful for how far our country has come, no matter what your personal beliefs. Unfortunately, we still have those who are so hung up on color and creed that they cannot see the bigger picture.
A person does not have to have slavery in his family's past to be African-American. By definition alone, African-American would be anyone who has descendants from any of the African countries and America as well.
ReplyDeleteYou people will never see your Mirror, it will elude you your entire life. what i said was in harmony with all tumblers and was said with heart and soul and love. I think you miss the point, but par for the course i quess.
ReplyDeleteFunny, I just had a young BLACK man exclaim to me that he is not voting for either party and "his" people have it all wrong and need to do their research as he believes Obama IS NOT black!
ReplyDeleteAs for the 100 year old woman getting out to vote today - God bless her!
There is no hate in what I said. I'm just stating fact. I agreed that the story was touching, but what's not touching is the fact that so many people of black african ancestry believes Obama is of the same. This is far from the truth and if I was of black african ancestry, I would be appalled. His Kenyan ancestry actually owned slaves for a lot longer than America did. His ancestry beat, murdered and raped the good people of Africa for many many more years than America ever did.
ReplyDeleteI am not at all a racist. I love everybody and feel that anything that divides us not only as a country, but as children of God shouldn't be tolerated.
Please join me and see the real beauty in this piece. That this woman has made it this long and has lived through so many elections where she couldn't vote or was scared to vote. I thank the Lord that she can walk into a polling location with a free mind, free will and cast her vote for whoever she wants for whatever reason she wants. May God bless her all the days she is still with us.
i think its wonderful that she lived long enough to see this happen, i dont mind seeing a black in office of our president i just wish it were someone else. I didnt vote for him because i didnt see eye to eye with what he stands for but if it were someone i agreed with i wouldnt hesitate to vote a black.
ReplyDeleteOn the Washington news tonight a 97 year old black woman was voting for the first time.Her reason was so she could vote for a black man...now who is being racist?
ReplyDeleteWe had a 9 year old at Allen Memorial Baptist Church. I saw alot of people turn out to vote that havent voted in years.
ReplyDelete8:57...when you have felt left out and disenfranchised all your life, then you can call a 97-year-old woman -- who experienced the worst of racism in this country -- a racist for voting for the first time for a black man.
ReplyDeleteWhile I don't support "playing the race card," I do think sometimes people don't understand how deeply the suppression and abuse of blacks has scarred this nation. That lack of empathy (not sympathy, empathy -- the ability to really put yourself in someone else's place and feel their pain) is part of what has grown the resentment and division between the races, on both sides.
Tracy, THANK YOU for this touching piece. I wasn't sure in my lifetime if I would see such an election as this, with a black and a woman the key leaders in the race for a major party nomination. (Ferraro had already broken the major party VP nomination ceiling, so Palin's mark was as the first Republican female VP nominee.)
God Bless America!
Mardela,
ReplyDelete"I am not at all a racist."
The fact that you're splitting hairs over someone's, um, RACE says otherwise.
I'm sorry but this is a racist post. Every time somebody says "oh look at how far the BLACKS have come!" you undermine african americans, because you are downplaying the struggle's they still face on a day to day basis.
ReplyDeletepeople like you just aren't TRYING to see what black people are so upset about. you just aren't trying.
and you're racist (not that you're an evil person through and through or anything, but a simpleminded racist fo sho)