djadonis206 wrote:Moody wrote:knotkranky wrote:Not voting is certainly no protest. Simply picking the best of the two for whatever reasons is respectable and has action in it and not voting simply hands it to McCain. Thanks a lot
Certainly not voting will not change a damn thing.
kids
I am guessing your kids rant was aimed towards myself. At no point did I say I would not vote. I simply stated it will not change a damn thing in this country and I certainly wish I was still a kid.
it wont change a thing?
over 70% of blacks are born into a single mother household.
1/2 of all black high schoolers will drop out of school
1/2 of the prison population is black
Homicide is the #1 killer of black men between the ages of 18 and 29
In the black community there are no black fathers and those that are left are either dead or in jail
so...
voting for someone like Senator Barack Obama
For once little black kids in America will have someone else besides LaBron James or Kobe Bryant to look up to
For once little black kids will see how far a good education will take them
For once black men and women will see a strong black family together, that stays together
This not only benefits the black community but America as a whole
the more productive people that are in a society the more productive that society becomes
when we stop subtracting from the pool and adding to the pool we all benefit
so voting does matter - maybe not to you but to millions of other people it does
there's already been numerous articles and human interest news specials on what the election means to the black community
nicely put Adonis
but I'd take that a step further and say that he may have already gone a long way to being that role model just by making it this far
what I'd be even more interested in would be what it says for the broader issue of race in general - once he became elected he would stop being 'the black candidate' and become 'the president'
I think it;s almost irrelevant what his policies are, he could be the man who really gets things moving in the US and makes huge steps towards restoring the image abroad
unless he does get in and do a really bad job of things
sadly I'm still sceptical he'll get that far - a lot of the attitudes we're seeing here for one - the people who don't vote will be the ones who let mccain in
but maybe Obama will do so much to bring out people who normally stay at home, like the younger people, that it will counter it
it is certainly the most interesting election probably ever
Dude, I've got free time right now! lol. Nice idea though, $180k takes it away 
