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Comment by Tiffany on November 24, 2008 at 11:16am

First Family Picks School for Sasha and Malia
November 23rd, 2008
Posted by Bossip Staff

Michelle and Barack have selected an elite private school in DC for their beautiful daughters:

There were obvious reasons for the Obamas to pick Sidwell Friends for their daughters Sasha and Malia. As the school that educated Chelsea Clinton, Al Gore III and the Nixon girls, it understands the unique personal and security needs of prominent children. It provides a first-rate education on two well-equipped campuses. Nearly four in 10 students are children of color. But the choice makes sense at a philosophical level as well, because of how Quakers view the challenge of shaping children into socially responsible and spiritually aware adults.

Comment by Donnisia (Nici) Rice-Tibbs on November 24, 2008 at 9:23am

Mockery Of President Elect Barak Obama

I hope that you are excited as I am about Senator Barack Obama's recent election to the Presidency of the United States of America.
I am sure that you have received emails and text messages poking fun at McCain supporters or joking about the obvious cultural shift that is about to take place in the White House...and while some may be on point, some are (no matter how "humorous") are dangerous. And frankly, I am tired of them...
Our country is in flux... We are in the midst of one of the most significant events in our nation's history and how WE carry ourselves is more important than ever before.
We cannot allow our President-elect to be made of mockery of, especially by his own people. Not only does he represent everything that is great about our nation; Barack Obama literally personifies how awesome we are as a people. His wisdom, his poise, his eloquence, his fortitude, even his swagger...illustrate the greatness of a people who have been dismissed, discarded, discouraged, and disregarded by not only "the majority", but also by our own. It is funny how we can't stand Rush Limbaugh, Sean Sanity, or Bill O'Reilly for their condescending and surreptitious attacks on Obama; but we email and text blast everyone from the 'hood about "free BBQ on the White House lawn" and messages of the like...let's be real, it is the same song, just a different band...
So, today, I personally implore you...when you get the stereotypical, shuck and jive, hee-haw emails or texts about our President-elect...even when they make you smile or chuckle...think of how much pleasure that some ignorant, hate-filled racist would get from that message...and then, remember the sacrifices that were made so that this is even possible...
I dare you...forward THIS mess! age, like e the ones about fried chicken, basketball, and red soda-water in the White House or even like the ones about "salty crackers"...challenge everyone you know to stop making a mockery of our President-elect, our country, and our people...this is our time...life is an occasion, so let's rise to it.

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Comment by TaMika Mitchell- Hurt on November 6, 2008 at 7:54pm

Not a word spoken in my office about the election. You could hear a rat pea on cotton. I think they (white folk) believe if they do not say anything, it will disappear or would be as if it never happened.

Comment by Sharon White on November 6, 2008 at 5:38pm

Yes, Netta
I haven't seen yt folks this silent since oj got aquitted.!!!!! But the odd thing is that the one's who were for Obama are coming up and whispering "We did it" and i am like huh? They all knew that I was for Obama from the beginning and they have not said a word for two years. They could have helped me call. LOL

Comment by Lavanetta "Netta" Quince on November 6, 2008 at 1:54pm

It has been so quiet in my office you can hear a mouse fart. People around here act as if the election didn't happen and history wasn't made. While I don't expect everyone to share my enthusiasm, somebody should say something. Have you all expirenced this in your work place as well?

Comment by Sharon White on November 5, 2008 at 8:21pm

Please read this article, the author is the daughter of George Wallace and she is an Obama supporter. The story is moving and telling in that she grew up in an era of racism but it didn't turn her into a racist. I would have cried when I read it but I was all cried out from last night.
Commentary: My father, George Wallace, and Barack ObamaStory Highlights
Peggy Wallace Kennedy: My dad, George Wallace, might have backed Barack Obama

Ex-segregationist Wallace sought absolution for his earlier views, daughter says

She says Obama will help heal the nation after wounds of Katrina and Iraq war





By Peggy Wallace Kennedy
Special to CNN

Editor's note: Peggy Wallace Kennedy is the daughter of George C. Wallace and Lurleen Wallace, who both were governors of Alabama. She lives in Montgomery, Alabama, with her husband, Mark Kennedy, a retired state Supreme Court justice. They have two sons, Leigh, a decorated veteran of the Iraq war, and Burns, a college sophomore.


Peggy Wallace Kennedy says her father sought absolution for his segregationist views.

MONTGOMERY, Alabama (CNN) -- I heard a car door slam behind me and turned to see an elderly but spry woman heading my way.

The night before, a gang of vandals had swept through the cemetery desecrating graves, crushing headstones and stealing funereal objects.

My parents' graves, situated on a wind-swept hill overlooking the cemetery, had not been spared. A large marble urn that stood between two granite columns had been pried loose and spirited away, leaving faded silk flowers strewn on the ground.

I was holding a bouquet of them in my arms when the woman walked up and gave me a crushing hug. "Honey," she said, "you don't know me, but when I saw you standing up here on this hill, I knew that you must be one of the girls and I couldn't help myself but to drive up here and let you know how much me and my whole family loved both of your parents. They were real special people."

I thanked her for her kind words as we stood side by side gazing down at the graves of Govs. George Wallace and Lurleen Wallace.

After a few moments, the woman leaned into me and spoke almost in a conspiratorial whisper. "I never thought I would live to see the day when a black would be running for president. I know your daddy must be rolling over in his grave."

Not having the heart or the energy to respond, I gave her bony arm a slight squeeze, turned and walked away. As I put the remnants of the graveyard spray in the trunk of my car, I assumed that she had not bothered to notice the Barack Obama sticker on my bumper.

When I was a young voter and had little interest in politics, my father would mark my ballot for me. As I thought about the woman in the cemetery, I mused that if he were alive and I had made the same request for this election, there would be a substantial chance, though not a certainty, that he would put an "X" by Obama's name.

Perhaps it would be the last chapter in his search for inner peace that became so important to him after becoming a victim of hatred and violence himself when he was shot and gravely injured in a Laurel, Maryland, shopping center parking lot. Perhaps it would be a way of reconciling in his own mind that what he once stood for did not prevent freedom of opportunity and self-advancement from coming full circle; his final absolution.

George Wallace and other Southern governors of his ilk stood defiantly in the 1950s and '60s in support of racial segregation, a culture of repression, violence and denial of basic human rights.

Their actions and the stark images of their consequences that spread across the world galvanized the nation and gave rise to a cry for an end to the American apartheid. The firestorms that were lit in Birmingham, Oxford, Memphis, Tuscaloosa, Montgomery, Little Rock and Selma were a call to arms to which the people responded.

And now a new call to arms has sounded as Americans face another assault on freedom. For if the stand in the schoolhouse door was a defining moment for George Wallace, then surely the aftermath of Katrina and the invasion of Iraq will be the same for George W. Bush.

The trampling of individual freedoms and his blatant contempt for the rights of the average American may not have been as obvious as an ax-handle-wielding governor, but Bush's insidiousness and piety have made him much more dangerous.

Healing must come, hope will be our lodestar, humility will reshape the American conscience, and honesty in both word and deed will refresh and invigorate America, and having Barack Obama to lead will give us back our power to heal.

My father lived long enough to come to an understanding of the injustices borne by his deeds and the legacy of suffering that they left behind. History will teach future generations that he was a man who used his political power to promote a philosophy of exclusion.

As his daughter, who witnessed his suffering in the twilight of his years and who witnessed his deeds and heard his words, I am one who believes that the man who, on March 7, 1965, listened to the reports of brutality as they streamed into the Governor's Mansion from Selma, Alabama, was not the same man who, in March of 1995, was welcomed with open arms as he was rolled through a sea of African-American men, women and children who gathered with him to welcome another generation of marchers, retracing in honor and remembrance the historic steps from Selma to Montgomery.

Four years ago, the young Illinois senator who spoke at the Democratic National Convention mesmerized me. I hoped even then that he would one day be my president.

Today, Barack Obama is hope for a better tomorrow for all Americans. He stands on the shoulders of all those people who have incessantly prayed for a day when "justice will run down like waters and righteousness as a mighty stream" (Amos 5:24).

Perhaps one day, my two sons and I will have the opportunity to meet Barack Obama in person to express our gratitude to him for bringing our family full circle.

And today, the day after the election, I am going to ride to the cemetery so that if asked, I can vouch for the fact that the world is still spinning but my father lies at peace.

The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Peggy Wallace Kennedy

Comment by Kesha Lucas Lee on November 5, 2008 at 2:38pm

We DID IT!!!!!!!!!!! This is awesome and they will truly bless this nation. God is smiling and so are Martin, Malcom, Coretta and Barack's Grandmother. What a great feeling to know we helped make HIStory!!!!!!!!!

Comment by Solomon (Spook) Denard on November 5, 2008 at 1:00pm

That picture is beautiful and yes, it does look right.

If I can be country for a second, I think we should tailgate January 19-21, 2009

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