It's time

So it has been a good week.

For starters my friend Barack got elected…woot woot…
For some reason the people that surround me have not stopped and taken the time to grasp the beauty of it.

This event will go down in history.
The youth of America finally spoke up. The first black president was elected. Hope for this country has been restored.

Now, I know Obama doesn’t have the experience, and he will probably not do all the things he has set up to do. But there is just something about him that just makes me feel that he should be there. That he will bring something to this country that will help us out.

Now I’m from El Paso. I don’t know if it’s the people I hang out with or just El Paso in general, but holly crap I hear the things they say and it makes me doubt that we are in fact in the 21st century.
They are ridiculously close-minded. I have heard so many racist jokes. It makes me sad. It makes me sad when I see a 13 year-old boy make a racist comment and watch as the mother laughs and pretends he is the funniest kid in the world. What makes me even sadder is the fact that almost all the racist comments (if not all of them) have come from a Mexican.
Now as a Mexican (and one who is fucking proud of it) it pisses me off. It pisses me off to see that because of stupid remarks made by few our whole culture is affected. But what can I do? Mexicans are proud people you can’t change us.

Another thing that amazes me is the close-mindedness of people. It’s kind of funny though, because I was raced (and continued to be raced) in a conservative household. My parents are both Christians, and both of them are pretty “christiany” in the way they live their lives and the ways they think other people should live theirs.
I love and admire my parents more than anything in the world, and I think that they did an amazing job raising my sister and I. It’s kind of hilarious though because my sister is one of those people that don’t really care about politics or anything going on in the U.S. (she voted though, I’m proud of her) and I on the other hand turned into some liberal junkie… oops! Two things that my dad dislikes: Apathy and Liberals.
Something that has been bothering me though is the fact that there are people my age who stand against human rights. I can understand older people being bitchy about it. But for the life of me I can’t understand how people my age can do it. I don’t know if anyone followed this (especially since most of the people I know are from Texas) but Proposition 8 passed in California. It bothered me so much, because if there is anything that I believe is wrong is a law not allowing people to love who they wish to love.
You know what it is not an issue about whether it is right or wrong, it’s an issue about human rights.
I find it incredible that people protest this. In all seriousness how does it affect you? It doesn’t. It really doesn’t. I was listening to NPR, which I really should stop it, it has become like a drug. It is my barer of good and unfortunately bad news.
Anyways, I thought I owed that to my fellow Californians to which I felt sympathy for.

On the up side Proposition 2 passed. Chickens get bigger houses. We don’t want our chickens to be sad before they get eaten.

Anyways enough about California! I don’t live there!

Ok anyways I’m tired.
Goodnight,

And remember:

When I was eighteen and nineteen years old writing songs, I really did believe that whatever experience I was having was, like, more special than any other person's love experience since the beginning of time- Sara Quin