My president > your president.

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Dear President Awesome:

I admit I don't pay as much attention to the news cycle now as I did when I was campaigning for you, mostly because you are in the White House now and I trust you take care of shit as you see fit. We don't always agree, but I always trust you to do the right thing and I can't say that for many people. This means I can just go about my day, trying not to bitch slap people over 'the racism against white men' or black kids being told they change they complexion of a pool* or those damn confirmation hearings.

And yet, apparently, America is "post-racial". Uh, since when?

As far as I can tell people only use the phrase "post-racial" when they want to say 'I voted for Obama so naturally I can't be a racist.'

Wait. This isn't about that.

This is about me coming home and finding out that you addressed the Alleged Racial Profiling of Henry Louis 'Skip' Gates^* and immediately thinking AND THAT IS WHY I BUSTED MY ASS MAKING HUNDREDS OF CALLS.**

I love you like I love Stephen. And Guy.


xxx,
Me

*Like Elon said 2009 is the new 1952 and I'm not a Tyler Perry fan, but this is how you put your money where your mouth is

**Alleged MY ASS.

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This is about me coming home and finding out that you addressed the Alleged Racial Profiling of Henry Louis 'Skip' Gates^* and immediately thinking AND THAT IS WHY I BUSTED MY ASS MAKING HUNDREDS OF CALLS.

I loved that he acknowledged the racism openly, because he's been so careful about that. (And I wish I could find a TV interview I swear I saw Obama do after the 2004 DNC speech, because I'm sure he talked about being stopped by the cops when he was out jogging in his new neighbourhood soon after he moved to Hyde Park. I'm pretty sure I wasn't hallucinating that.)