Watching the elections, I have come upon some interesting facts which I am sure others find perplexing too. If you listen to the news, especially on CNN and Fox, you would think only white people vote for Hillary and only blacks vote Obama.  I think the media says this just to divide people and create mass chaos.

Then you listen closely and you hear them say ‘Affluent” white people are voting for Obama and, lower income “hard working” whites are voting for … wait … Hillary???

Okay, now I am seriously confused, doesn’t take much, trust me!. If rich white people are voting Obama and blacks are voting Obama, could this mean that they have, Gasp… something in common?    What? oh what? could this be.

 They tell us that whites without college degrees, etc etc are voting for Hillary. They give a complete demographic breakdown but they have no demographic breakdown of the black voters.  Oh, they are just black!.  We need to know where these black people went to school, how poor or rich they are. We want to know how many children they have, what they do in their spare time, so that we can see what ALL black people have in common with affluent white people.

I was a fan of Hillary Clinton until she turned in to a fishwife and a beer drinking, gunslinging thug, who was dodging sniper bullets in Bosnia. It was so refreshing to see Obama not dignify those types of antics.  Come on, CNN, Fox and other news Media, you owe us that much. Don’t just be fear mongers, don’t contribute to this politics of division. Its not a race thang, its a human being thang!

Check out what one  of my favorite bloggers -”Racialicious”written by Carmen Van Kerckhove has to say about this issue, in her 4 part series. Carmen’s perspectives on race and racism have been featured in Newsweek, USA Today, The New York Times, MSNBC Live, and NPR’s News & Notes. You should check her out sometime.

Check out her readers opinion on this article on the front page of the Washington Post. It involves the late Martin Luther King Statue being built in Changsha, China. I don’t know about you but I think it is a great honor. Sounds cut and dried, Right. Oh no! People want the statue reworked. Amongst other questions asked, include “Why isn’t the sculptor black? MLK looks a little Asian? For Petes sake, because the sculptor is Asian?. I swear if the sulptor was Norwegian, they would say, the statue looks a little Norwegian.

A powerful federal arts commission is urging that the sculpture of Martin Luther King Jr. proposed for a memorial on the Tidal Basin be reworked because it is too “confrontational” and reminiscent of political art in totalitarian states.

The U.S. Commission of Fine Arts thinks “the colossal scale and Social Realist style of the proposed statue recalls a genre of political sculpture that has recently been pulled down in other countries,” commission secretary Thomas Luebke said in a letter in April.

By law, no project like the memorial can go forward without approval from the commission, the federal agency that advises the government on public design and aesthetics in the capital.

Here is a typical comment:

I totally see the criticism against it. Seriously, do we want a statue of MLK using imagery that’s associated with dictators like Stalin? If it’s an issue to have a photo of a black man that mimics imagery of a giant ape, then it is an issue to have a statue that mimics the imagery used to glorify totalitarian mass-murderers. - Jefferey.

So many criticisms have been leveled against this statue that truly people in fashion should have been called on to design it. The layout would have been superb, colors beautiful and he would have had a great expression. Let me see, I think his mouth would definitely have to be open, but not too open.

People, give it a rest and in the words of Rodney King, Can’t we all get along”? or at least “Shut Up “