This is exactly what I knew was coming.

My friends frequently have to tell me to stop talking about politics. (I tend to get a little over-enthusiastic.)

I registered to vote the the Monday after my 18th birthday back in 2003. I have voted in every single election since then, whether it was for local candidates or for the president. It's my right and if I want to have an opinion about politics, then I need to vote.

Originally, I was hoping and praying for Mitt Romney to win the presidential race, although I knew from the beginning it would be a long shot. When McCain received the nomination and announced Palin as his running mate, though, I was sold. (This should be evident by the pink bumper sticker on my car which will remain until a Republican is back in office.)

I really hope that I do not offend anyone by what I'm about to say here, but this is my blog and I can voice my opinions - but only because I voted.

Yes, I saw the comic in the New York Post. Yes, I thought it was funny. No, I don't think anyone needed to apologize for it. Here's why:

1. The stimulus bill/economic recovery bill/whatever-you-want-to-call-it bill might as well have been written by a monkey. It will not do any good. Inflation is going to sky-rocket. The people who are out of the job right now will not be getting a job thanks to the bill. That means that Aharon won't be getting a job because of this bill. Why? Because the money is going to create jobs with existing companies who are going to give more work to their existing workers, not hire in new ones. The insinuation in the comic that the monkey could have written the next bill was funny. Hands down. No exceptions.
2. Obama looks like a monkey. This is not racist. A family who used to attend my church - that I miss very much - had a little girl. She, with her porcelain white skin and light blond hair - looked like a monkey. George Bush even looked like a monkey! Some people look like monkeys and it has nothing to do with the skin color, place of birth, or anything else.
3. Perhaps the author meant it to be racist. Getting all upset about it isn't going to help. I would respect people a lot more if they could laugh at themselves and get over things. I understand that slavery was horrible. I don't doubt that or discredit it. But it's been years. Let's move on, people.
   

I was not happy about the idea of Obama as president. This is not simply because he was black or even because he was a democrat, but rather because of the eventual racism that would appear in full force. And I'm not talking about white people being racists against black people. It goes both ways, and unfortunately I think it works a little harder against white people lately.

So let the hating begin. Now that we have a black president every single thing is white people being racist. And that is exactly why I am sad about having a black president. You had your day of celebration. Now let's move on. It's over. He's just one more president in a very long line that will continue after him.

I think that this country has gone above and beyond when it comes to making things right for slavery and for all the inconsistencies of decades ago. But we've made it right. Years of affirmative action, for one! The fact that my brothers and I were not able to get scholarships because everything required you to be a minority. How's that for not fair?!

If the next four to eight (and I pray to God every day that it's not eight) years continue like this, with a weekly break in reality for some bitch session about how black people are treated and how all us ignorant white people should apologize for the rest of our lives and suffer because of it, then this country is certainly not behaving in the way it should. We are all equal. But when these kind of things become headline news, I don't feel equal. I feel like black people hate me even though I did nothing.

So guess what, I'm going to bitch about how all us white people are treated.

Enjoy!