Bushwick Culture Clicks 8/28/08
Bushwick shout outs to Obama. Here, here, and here (meaning me).
Reviving Cinematic History. A review of Cinema 16 at Starr Space as part of the Bushwick Film Festival from the Queens Ledger.
Who is merchandising the hell out of Bushwick on Cafepress! Show yourself! You’re wild! You’ve taken over google searches! Are you making money?
Tales from Bushwick. A series of sorts on YouTube. “About abstract and real: an artist’s life. What and who is a philosopher and a student of sciences? Home schooling by own system.”
“The history I just witnessed on ABC News cannot be understated. The camera panned to a woman of color in the audience who was wiping tears from her eyes as Clinton spoke. That image speaks for itself!”
It sure does, it says: Please short your keyboard out by barfing on it.
Even after Obama has demonstrated himself to be no better than a 90% evil McCain, and then of all people, took disgustingly ambitious warmonger Joe Biden as VP, you’re all still creaming your…t-shirts over this schmuck. Don’t get me wrong — 90% of the evil of McCain is still lesser, and I am rooting for Obama, no doubt. Besides, it will be fun for the Democrats to get blamed for fucking things up — after 8 years of Bush, people are starting to forget that the Democrats suck just as much as Republicans. I don’t know why — the outrageous betrayal of antiwar voters in the most recent Congressional elections should have reminded you. Or maybe voting to give retroactive immunity to the corporations who work in concert with illegal government directives — something Obama liked — should have.
I’ll get a sick satisfaction watching the pathetic spectacle of a people pretending the powerless act of voting is transforming their country. All you’ll be doing is handing the keys to the military — and the treasury — to another trigger-happy, profligate thug. And the people who have real power in this country will laaaaaugh and laugh and laugh.
Go Obama.
I cried watching it. Even if I hated everything he stood for I would have been proud of him for getting that far. I grew up knowing that in life I had to be twice as good as white people in order for me to be considered their equal.
I had a meeting with the CFO at my company a few months ago and after that meeting he told someone that he couldn’t believe I was so smart. (…despite the fact that I’ve been here almost 10 years and provide all the reports that let him how how a particularly huge revenue generating area of our business is doing.)
so yeah… i teared.
MJ, the skill and intelligence you employ to advance in your career is a completely different skill set than the one necessary to climb one’s way up to the top office of government. Someone who makes it to the Oval Office is almost guaranteed to be evil, since there is no real achievement (besides being born into privilege or having a natural gift for swaying the masses with one’s golden tongue, ahem) needed as a prerequisite, as opposed to the business world, where you have to prove your mettle and actually create some value every step of the way. What I’m saying is, you are probably an amazing person, but I have no respect for a man like Barack Obama. His dad is African, great — and he milked that asset as would befit a politician. But what does he have that matters?
(PS, your CFO is a fucking idiot.)
You’re not really connecting the lines of what I’m saying. Convincing white people to trust and respect you enough to get you on that podium is a feat for any black person period… no matter how he did it.
My own example was just to show that we are generally underestimated.
No, I get it, but we’ve had different experiences in life and place different degrees of importance on that (as far as political office is concerned). What I mean is, I could never see it as you see it, but I get that you do see it that way. blah.
Yeah, that’s why I said that whole ‘even if I hated what he was about’ thing… I essence I should have written ‘all political views aside’.
(also I did barf a little when I read that. It was very melodramatic.)
Oh, regarding the ‘degree of importance’ thing… amongst myself and my peers race was probably given the same degree of importance as you gave it as far as political office was concerned (probably close to somewhere around zero). Yes, we are proud that he’s happens to be black but our goal was to choose the lesser of the evils.
Negativity is so easy to come by and so easily makes you look cool, right?
In the meantime you could spend this space and time writing something that contributes to the common good. Thugs dwell in negativity to insite a response.
In response to negtivity I encourage all of you to Do Something for the common good this weekend, instead of feeding into negativity.
-Peace!
Just wanted to post one additional Bushwick shout out to Obama here (meaning me).
Oh please, Nicole. Yeah, I should have focused on what a snazzy dresser Obama is, instead of all those things that turn your warm fuzzies into cold pricklies. You know what I do for the common good every day? I mind my own business. At the end of the Obama presidency, I’ll have several less invasions and occupations and foreign-aid-financed massacres on my record than Mr. President will. What will he have on his positive list? Insuring 0.8% more Americans? Wow.
Now go on blindly into your numb-brained bliss and wait for the revolution, stewing in your self-satisfaction at having voted for a man who, well, at least looks black.
He doesn’t look like any of the black guys I see hanging out on Broadway. I mean, his pants were actually at WAIST level! And he speaks a whole different language than I hear spoken on the Bushwick streets (ya no wat i sayn?). But more shocking – the Republicans will nominate a WOMAN as their vice president candidate! What is this world coming to???
The revolution has already begun and it’s about good constructive ideas and deeds and not about negative whinning and ranting.
Keep that grin pinned on, honey. You’ll need it for the next four years.
Jeremy I think you are forgetting what Obama stands for. He stands for hope and change. How can you not be for change and hope. Any one who doesn’t like change and hope hates America. OBAMA REVOLUTION!!!!!!!!
yes, hope and change, i’ll vote for that platform any day! yes sir, sign me up! it’s simple, it MUST be good!
free speech certainly is a powerful angel, what rousing roosters sit on this dock… and how callous the one that turns the pages. No words for him. But as to the ‘evil obama’ I hear about so often these days – I certainly haven’t found any dirt on the man except Rezco, and if you research that debacle I think you’ll find Obama made the best out of a genuine mistake. Politics be damned, no one can dispute the power of these speeches he’s giving. People have begun moving again. Talking on the trains about issues. We’re being united for the first time in a long while…
Whatever. Simplifying platforms is what the Republican party does all the time, it’s in their how-to-win-always-bible. It’s about time the Democrats caught on that alienating people is not the way to win elections.
I’ve become a big fan of shouting McCain’s “Drill Here, Drill Now!” slogan, but I’m just kind of a slut.
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