Entry 10- I only support Barak Obama for president because he it black. Oh, wait. There a few other reasons, too.

I always suppose when I am walking around town that all black people love me because I also support Barak Obama for president. Which, of course, every black person in the United States also does. We would all be pretty naive to suggest otherwise.

(There is that one Republican hip-hop dude that performed at the Republican National Convention some years back. How do we now get a hold of him to ask him if he has recently switched party affiliation?)

I also always suppose that die hard feminists hate me because I do not support Hillary Clinton for president. That is why I do not hang out at dyke bars. I've been spending my time with woman haters. Because, as you all know, if you do not support Hillary, you absolutely do hate women.

Years ago, when my handlers allowed me to stay up late and watch television, I saw H.C. on the Letterman show. Dave kissed her ass and made a few jokes, as he does with just about any guest on his program. Then, in a moment of gap-toothed brilliance, he asked her a very poignant question. Something about how it is people who earn less than twenty-thousand dollars a year survive in this country.

H.C. did not really have much of an answer about that at all. In fact, she flat out admitted that she had no idea how poor people live day to day. That was a curious answer, I thought, because if you remember Bill Clinton's original bid for presidency, he swept a lot of people to his side by recanting what a normal, modest upbringing he had. You know, normal in the way that his father was an abusive alcoholic, and he had to go about creating his own wealth and popularity out of his own drive and determination.

What lessons he might of learned from that do not seem to have crossed the marital divide. H.C. was planted next to a prosecuting attorney during the Watergate investigation. There is a difference, in my opinion, of being groomed for success, and just making it happen by your own force of will.

Let's ask Barak and his wife Michelle if they were ever invited into those kind of prosperous situations before ever running for office. We might hear a different story from them about how they have been treated in the past by the status quo.

I don't even know that much about their personal history. Only that Barak to this day, and possibly forever, will have to answer questions about his father's past. How does a person like Hillary Clinton represent all women? I don't see how that makes any sense at all. There is no single candidate that any political party could run in an election that is going to truly represent every one's, or even a whole group of people's entire interests. I don't think it helps anyone though, when sexist assholes yell rude shit at her, or any other candidate, or anyone in their family.

And, by the way, I promise to someday write a long-winded journal entry here about how sexism is NOT always exhibited by men in society. There are some trash-talking women out there too, who do not mind bringing each other down in order to prosper for themselves.

I will be participating at an open mic reading tonight where I plan to read one poem that has absolutely nothing to do with the current election, or really anything to do with anyone now living. I still have the CD recording of me reading a really, really good poem. Since no one has yet offered to pay me $20.00 for it, I will just accept any donation you can afford. Thank you.