field negro: love

Showing posts with label love. Show all posts

Showing posts with label love. Show all posts

Sunday, January 06, 2008

"O" Happy Day!

This is a feel good post from the field. And although he vowed that 08 would be more of the same, just for tonight he would like to leave a real happy post.

There will be no cynical observations about life in A-merry-ca. There will be no calling out the hypocrites among us and the PC crowd. And there will be no excoriating of the frat boy and his minions. Nope, none of that. With this post the field wants to spread nothing but love and happy feelings.

The field does not want to be a spoiler of the "O" happy day movement that has been sweeping A-merry-ca. The field is happy tonight, and he will carry his happiness into Monday morning. The field was out and about today and everywhere he went he felt the happiness and the love. Everyone was soooo happy. Even old white men. Quite a few old white men smiled at the field today. I swear this Obama effect is real and contagious.

What a feeling! Tonight I wish I could just ask everyone in A-merry-ca to hold hands and sing "we are the world" together. Tonight I wish I could buy everyone a coke. Tonight, I am happy. And I suspect "O" might hav

e something to do with it.

Hey "O" please don't stop doing what you are doing. Keep spreading that glow. Keep giving us happiness. Keep giving us hope......

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~Erik Hare, "The Twin Cities Daily Planet"~

"Half a century after Little Rock, the Montgomery bus boycott and the tumultuous dawn of the modern civil rights era, the new face of the movement is Facebook, MySpace and some 150 black blogs united in an Internet alliance they call the
AfroSpear.

Older, familiar leaders such as Rev. Jesse Jackson, Rev. Al Sharpton and NAACP Chairman Julian Bond, are under challenge by a younger generation of bloggers known by such provocative screen names as Field Negro, thefreeslave
and African American Political Pundit. And many of the newest struggles are being waged online."

~Howard Witt-The Chicago Tribune~

"I had no idea, for example, of the extent of the African-American blogging world out there and its collective powers of dissemination.But now, after reading thousands of anguished, thoughtful comments posted on these blogs reflecting on issues of persistent racial discrimination in the nation's schools and courtrooms, what's clear to me is that there's a new, "virtual" civil rights movement out there on the Internet that can reach more people in a few hours than all the protest marches, sit-ins and boycotts of the 1950s and 60s put together." ~Chicago Tribune Reporter, Howard Witt~