My son was texted this joke earlier. It actually made us laugh out loud: What black man can repeatedly beat a white woman in public and get away with it?
Answer: Barack Obama.
And so, I bring you to my point about this presidential race via the Internet. The revolution will not be televised, but it will be thwarted on the Internet.
My son is recently in from studying this past month in Colorado, so he missed the viral messages back and forth. We played "Derrick" for him...the black young man the white reporter couldn't trip up in his impromptu interview. We also had him listen to Derrick's response which was just as profound. Then we found an interview with Derrick and his band that made me want to buy his album and nominate him as Barack's running mate.
Our son told us of the You Tube video of a man claiming to have had all kind of crazy homosexual encounters with Obama. Somebody Sinclair. Then we saw another one from a gay black man that was actually a spoof of Sinclair's. The first was reading. My husband found a story on him and how he was in a mental institution. The second was just raw. Neither made the news, nor should they have. The media is more and more savvy about Internet hoaxes.
Earlier last month, I received one talking about Barack being Muslim and how he was going to take over the world. There are Hillary hit pieces as well, and the cacophony of voices is deafening.
This presidential race is not for the faint of heart. But folks, lest we forget, take the high road. Publish PostIt is too easy to carry a bone. Check it out on www.Snopes.com before forwarding or better yet, let's just bury them.
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