Congratulations USA! Congratulations!

I have never been more proud of my country than I was last night. I have never cried in joy over the election of a new president. I didn’t even cry in sorrow when Bush was reelected, that was because I didn’t hate the, I just strongly didn’t want him to be back in office (I was right by the way). I feel relief for the first time in my adult life. I feel safe for the first time. I really feel that now we can be as great of a country as we should be. I have faith, a faith I have never had before, in this country. Granted as a child, teenager, and young adult I did not pay enough attention to the world around me to care, but once I did start to listen, I did begin to lose faith. I am no longer afraid. The road ahead will be long, it will be hard, but we will make it. I know that some promises will have to go on the back burner while more immediate issues take priority. I know that he is not the only one making decisions, but I know that he will do as much as he possibly can to bring this country back to its feet.

I am saddened by the reactions of a few people in my life, reactions that I did not expect from what I would have thought were intelligent adults, but that is life. I am just worried for them and about what their hate will do to this country. It is one thing to disagree with a person’s politics but it is another to spread lies and arouse hate about a person’s character. You have to take responsibility for the things you say, and think about what you want to teach your children. Do you want to teach them that someone said so and so was this type of person and we should be scared of them, we should hate them? No, you have to be more responsible than that. For one, be informed before you open your mouth. Two, heed your mother’s words “If you cannot say anything nice, don’t say anything at all.”

Most importantly be informed and only repeat and believe what was actually said by the person themselves, and not what others say about them. For instance, if you still think Obama is a terrorist Muslim, stop telling me you did research, because we both know you didn’t look up that information. You just heard it from someone who heard it from some one. If you would just stop and think about that for a second you would realize just how stupid that sounds.

Here is why. The only fact that you need is a fact that you do not even have to search through websites or books to find. The fact is we live in a post 9-11 world. We also live in a world that is still full of racism. I know that our election of an African American into the White House proves that we have come a long way, but that doesn’t mean it is gone. We may be getting better with the black and white issue, but we still harbor racist feelings against those that are different from us. Which means, after 9-11 a large section of this country became prejudice against anyone Middle Eastern and against any that was thought to Middle Eastern.

I say that to say that if anyone had ever really thought the Obama was a terrorist Muslim . . . noticed I added the word terrorist to it, because after 9-11 everyone of the Muslim religion were lumped into one large group, without anyone actually realizing that not all Muslims hate Americans, not all Muslims interpret the Koran the same way, and not all of them bombed the shit out of us. The term Muslim became associated with terrorism, when in reality it was only a small sect of that religion that attacked us, that have raged a war against us and that hate us with every ounce of themselves. Most don’t care about us, they don’t know us, and they just want to live their lives, worship their religion and to be left alone.

OK back to what I was saying, if anyone really thought that Obama was a terrorist he would have never made it into any public office in this country. Someone would have researched him and if they truly found anything or even a possibility of anything the world would have never know who he was. This may not have been true before 9-11, but in the world today they would have. There is a long laundry list of other things that prove he is not a terrorist (and I have researched most of them), but this simple fact is really all the proof that anyone needs. After 9-11, all Americans; old, young, educated, non-educated, black, white, Spanish, Japanese, etc, all of us became aware that there were people out there that hated us, and there is no way we would subject ourselves to such people. If Obama was a terrorist, if he hated this country, if any of those horrific rumors were actually true, he would have never made it into any public office. Our fear would have never let it happen. Since he was, since he has made not hint of anything, no mention of anything, we have to go on the fact that he is not.

So my words to all of you who are pretending to be scared;

GET OVER YOURSELVES. SHUT UP AND SIT DOWN BECAUSE YOU LOOK LIKE A RACIST IDIOT.