Black America will wake up and get it!

Well it doesn't really matter who gets the most votes . Our votes don't mean sh*t when you get right down to it. When you vote for a presidential candidate you are really voting to instruct the electors from your state to cast their votes for the same candidate. For example, if you vote for the Republican candidate, you are really voting for an elector who will be "pledged" to vote for the Republican candidate. But they will have say of who gets the vote. The candidate who wins the popular vote in a state wins all the pledged votes of the state's electors. BUT..... While the state electors are "pledged" to vote for the candidate of the party that chose them, nothing in the Constitution requires them to do so. In rare instances, an elector will defect and not vote for his or her party's candidate. Such "faithless" votes can change the outcome of the election and laws of some states prohibit electors from casting them. But can they still do it. Remember what went on in Florida...Thousands of votes got lost, stolen, not counted and rejected. So if your elector(s) of your state has made up their mind about which person is best to serve the country, they can still vote for them and disregard who we voted for. So the question is does your vote really count or is this just a sham? We have the right to vote but it is still out of our hands who wins.

Yeah... when she said that it didn't sit well in my stomach. That was around the time that I was shifting my interest from Obama to McCain. But if you get into her thesis she wrote in college you get an idea of how she thinks and why she words things the way she does. I still don't get the whole race thing that's going on in this election. I wasn't raised to notice the color of ones skin, but I guess that some people notice it more than others. I'm not black or white, so who should I wake up and get it too??? lol

Barack Obama is quite a colorful character, alright. His mama was white, his papa was black,(that's 23 pairs of chromosomes from each parent) and that in itself gives him an edge in the election. He can pretend to be a white person to get the white votes, and a black person to get the black votes, but really he is neither. I hope you are right about this and EVERYONE will wake up and "get it" before election day.

I'm beginning to think that it should be illegal for either candidate to mention race in their campaign - too bad it isn't possible to just not show their faces so no one knows what race they are!