Elenamary

Sunday mornings should start earlier, at 8am. They should start with Sunday morning news programs with a bunch of white men debating over who is doing a worse job, white man number one or white man number two. Which should be watched with a warm cup of cofee in hand, Sunday New York Times strewn across my lap, and me snuggled under blankets with a hot intelligent man next to me. Yesterday was MUCH better than a Sunday. Yesterday, I woke up and at 8am started cubing potatoes, I cubed 10lbs of potatoes for homefries. I turned on CSPAN and watched The State of the Black Union while chopping my potatoes and all day, only interrupted for Barack Obama’s announcement. I was making 10lbs of homefries because I had invited over my friends to watch Obama’s formal announcement on his candidacy for President. We had a wonderful breakfast of eggs, bruschetta, homefries, muffins, biscuits, bacon, veggie meat, coffee, milk, and mimosas. We snuggled under blankets, watched CSPAN discussed politics, took naps interrupted by mugs of warm coffee. It was a fabulous day of CSPAN, good food and great friends. My friends are so great that they not only helped me cook, they helped me clean too!

Let’s get to the Politics! The State of the Black Nation was by far better than Barack Obama’s speech. I was kind of disappointed with his speech…all though I am still excited about his candidacy. My wonderful friend Kae who took charge of the eggs yesterday morning, described his speech as a good first date. I like you, you seem great, I want to kiss you, but I am not sure where this relationship could go or if we will love each other…

As for The State of the Black Nation, at 8 am when the first panel started, while I was chopping potatoes alone in my living room, I ended up yelling at the TV and the panel. They were asked the question that was something like “We all have heard about how Hispanics are now the largest minority. What do you think about this new diaspora?” I am going to ignore (for the most part) the use of the term Hispanic and move on to the word diaspora. Not one of the panelists questioned the use of the word diaspora and those who did respond used it. It is NOT just a DIASPORA! It was terrible hearing educated political, religious, leaders discuss the “new immigrants”. Have they not ever heard the catch phrase: WE DIDN’T CROSS THE BORDER THE BORDER CROSSED US! Who do they think inhabited Texas, New Mexico, California, Colorado, Nevada, Arizona BEFORE slaves were brought, BEFORE the Anglos colonized? Pissed me off. Not all of us are a new minority, not all of us are part of a diaspora.

On a lovely note, I loved watching and hearing Cornel West speak. He is an amazing auditor, I can’t imagine what it would be like to sit in on one of his lectures. He seems like the kind of person that you would sit down to talk to and only 10 hours later realize it was 4 in the morning. He is the kind of man I would want to marry. He did put forth a great question, why did Obama decide to make his announcement during this convention that had been scheduled more than a year in advance? There were judges, governors, congress representatives at this event, why wasn’t Barack there?