Secretary of State

POLL

I love how 44 can barely stop himself from laughing at the Democratic National Convention as he talks about how Dumb Donald (not the esteemed cartoon character from the beloved children’s cartoon, Fat Albert, but the other one) views himself. Dumb Donald thinks of himself as a “Himself,” when he’s really more like an “itself.” But I’m not here for that – now. I have a thought -an idea to connect our communities.

On Nov. 8 might police help the citizens they serve by helping them get to the polls? I understand they have an important job to do, but working with community leaders perhaps they could help coordinate shared rides or something.

In neighborhoods plagued by the trouble that comes with too little opportunity, parents and other caring adults in the community take back their streets daily, in the morning and the afternoon, by emptying out of their homes and lining their blocks to provide a human shield for their most precious treasures – their children.

A revolutionary act of kindness – to take ownership for all children, blood relation, neighbor or stranger. All of our children are the responsibility of all of us.

On Nov. 8, might some officers be available to be a peaceful presence en route to polling places, especially as it gets dark and/or in under-resourced areas?

It would be a good way for the people and the police to introduce one another to each other.

Remember in the Chris Rock movie, Head of State, his character, Gilliam Mays, a candidate for President, keeps his promise on election day to get his original constituents to the polls. Mays does this but driving his campaign bus throughout his community.
I love movies, plays, musicals. I love it when the lights go out and a more ideal version of us is illuminated.
Police Poll Patrol

YOUR

For those of you who have supported 44, I don’t know why you can’t support his choice for Secretary of State and keep on making history like we have for the last 8 years.

I understand that the election of a Black president and his remarkable success as the leader of a country that denies the plight and contributions of his ancestors and fellow Americans, has the status quo shook and that has reverberated into what can only be described as The Nightly Show, has so eloquently put it – Blacklash. But we shall not be moved.

Have you seen the Wiz? The movie, not the play. As the Wiz dictates which colors are in and out, the lyric goes: “I wouldn’t be caught dead in red.” Don’t get caught out there people. This is not a multiple choice test. There is only one answer.

I will have to pray because I know that there are those on the other side who feel just as strongly as I do. But I’m afraid. I’ve done everything to be successful and safe and I don’t feel like either. One of my biggest fears is that George Carlin, Marc Maron, Seth Macfarlane, Anthony Jeselnik and a bunch of other comedians I admire are right and that I’m deluding myself with this God thing. But at a time like this, all I can think of to not go mad is God help us!

FOUR

Three Dog Night might be mistaken. The loneliest number may not be one, it might be four. With no disrespect to the Green or Libertarian parties this is not a 4 candidate race. I don’t care what you see, what you hear, or who’s on your ballot.

Hillary, a woman with decades of experience as First Lady, Senator and Secretary of State who went to Wellesley and Yale is running against a reality TV star with a staccato 5th grade vocabulary who mocks the disabled and can’t stay away from a period joke when he’s mic’ed up. He also makes up nicknames to belittle those who oppose him the way a schoolyard bully does.

And it’s just the two of them. Don’t split the vote. We already know the end of that story.

She’s an insider. Insider only becomes an issue as more of us (anybody not a rich, white, male land-owner) get “in.”

She’s experienced and he is not even a novice, not even an amateur.

He’s an experiment.

One that will blow up in all of our faces.

I implore you to vote for Hillary Clinton.

You have one choice.

We have one choice.

Some of us will go back to being 3/5 of a person, being greeted by barking dogs and showered by fire hoses.

Some of us will be beaten back into closets.

New families will be broken.

For all of us still seeking a more perfect freedom, “fight like Hill” for someone who actually knows something about working toward a more perfect union.