Darling Nicky

Today, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barak Obama denounced Ludacris’ song ”Politics Obama is Here”. In the song Ludacris calls Hillary Clinton a bitch and says that the only chair that John McCain belongs in is in a wheelchair. Sigh… Here we go again with another Obama supporter taking things a bit too far, and Obama gets slammed for something that he didn’t even say. Granted Obama was very quick on the draw to make a statement through his campaign before anyone could scrutinize him for being associated to people with opinions that may or may not be his.

I can’t help but to feel bad for Obama, though. He’s had to denounce his former spiritual counselor and friend Rev. Jeremiah Wright, then the church that Wright gave the speech at and that Obama attended. Then he’s had to separate himself from Islam when people started confusing Obama with Osama and mentioning that his middle name Hussein is a Muslim name, alienating his Muslim supporters while showing that he is “a friend of Israel”. He now has to denounce what rapper Ludacris says about his Republican rival for president and his former Democratic rival. Give him a break people!

Not only is this a bad time to make a song like this when a lot of Hillary’s female supporters had a hard time getting over Hillary conceding the nomination, but this is the time where the Democratic party is trying to pull together and unify after some heated words of Hillary supporters *coughHarrietChristiancough* and threats of voting for McCain instead of Obama in place of Hillary. This song is one more thing that the right can use against Obama and sensationalize to those who still don’t know who they will vote for come November and those who are uninformed and easily swayed. They’ll use this to say that Obama is not for unifying the country; he’s sexist, ageist, and elitist, even though the words of the song are not his, but those of a rap artist’s who happens to support the Illinois senator.

I do hope that hip hop continues to become political and put their support behind a candidate that has stances on the issues they agree with, but can you lay off the mysoginstic and down right unnecessary lyrics, especially when the presidential race is so close. We’re looking at two people that at the beginning of the primaries these two were underdogs and no one thought they would be presumptive nominees, but now here they are, and it’s still either one’s race to claim. I don’t want to say that hip hop artists shouldn’t have an opinion, but there has to be some responsibility taken into consideration.

Here is a link to All Hip Hop where Ludacris’ “Politics: Obama is Here” is mentioned.

I met a guy at a block party in Brooklyn yesterday. I was walking to the subway when three men passed me and one of them stopped to talk to me. He told me his name, and I told him mine. We then started to get to know each other with the basic questions, like What do you do?, How old are you? (I look really young but of age, so this is a usual question for me), Where did you go to school?, etc.  He’s telling me I’m beautiful. We kiss. Blah, blah, blah… So far, I’m liking this guy and thinking I could have sex him. Problem is I didn’t tell him I’m a virgin because it hasn’t gotten me anywhere in the past with guys.

            Another problem is that he got to eager. He then started asking me about my experience as far as sex goes (duh), what I like to do, what my favorite position is, and so forth. I’m wondering what the hell happened to the easy breezy conversation we were having? Yet I’m completely turned off to him, until he insinuates that I must be a freak (if he only knew). He says I’m probably good at giving head because of how sexy my lips are, I probably like to be on top riding the hell out of his dick, blah, blah, blah. We part ways on the subway so he can hitch a ride with one of his friends home. Before he gets off, he tells me to call him when I get home and we kiss goodnight.

            I get home and text him that I arrived safely, and he texts back five or six times about our kiss, about our plans to see each other the next day, about what I’m going to do to him when I see him, and more. And you people say virgins are clingy! All I wanted to do was tell dude. I’m over him already. He’s become overwhelming, and it’s just too much! So, yeah, I’m supposed to see him later today, but I don’t want to anymore. What do I tell him to get out of this? I just started my period?

Okay, I know you think I’m wrong for this but I just do. My grandmother hasn’t had a boyfriend since she dated this man who died from cancer way back when my mother was a teenager, and one day my grandma and I were sitting in the living room watching a movie about romance (I forget which one it was, but I’ll bet it was starring Sandra Bullock) when she says to me, “Nevermind this love stuff. It ain’t never worked out for me. They always leave you.” I never said anything to her or to anybody about it, but I felt really sad that my grandmother felt that way, and just thought that through all that she’s been through in her about 80 years of living my grandma has a broken heart and bitter outlook on love.

Then came the revelation that my grandma sure does spend a lot of times at her friend Charlotte’s house. I’ve never met this elusive Charlotte, but I’ve always heard of my mom or aunts not being able to get in touch with grandma at her house or she was supposed to meet somebody but forgot and was up at Charlotte’s house. I have no idea what Charlotte looks like, what she about, or even where the woman lives, but I think that Charlotte is my grandmother’s lover. I don’t doubt that I’m the only person in my family to think this, and I have never mentioned this to anyone, so I don’t know anyone else’s take on this.

I don’t mind if my grandma is a lesbian. It doesn’t change my love for her, but I would like to know that my grandma has found a life partner to be happy with. And while I do acknowledge that Charlotte might just be a friend, I can’t help think of why two people would possibly want to spend that much damn time together and not be a romantic couple. Grandma is always at Charlotte’s!