Listen Bill. You, and you alone, are creating this conflict between gays and black people. Because you have nothing positive to say about the situation, you are basing all your coverage on a small statistic, and blowing it out of proportion. As far as I’m concerned, you’re the one spreading the hate.

Stop yelling nonsense.

Watching Bill O’Reilly is a sure-fire way to get my blood boiling and almost seems pointless because he is such a bully. If you don’t say what he likes, or even how he likes it, he just shuts you down and yells at you until you do or just give up. He’s a master on twisting words and just confusing the hell out of you to either get a rise from you or to make his point. This video is just one of many examples.

Let me answer some of his questions:

Why no protests at black churches? The black vote was not the deciding vote that pushed Prop 8 into the win. It was a part of it, but not what pushed the vote. It is not because we will lose politically correct cred? 

Why going after the churches? It is not because they are preaching against homosexuality. It is because they FUNDED a political campaign to take rights away. It is meddling into a state matter where the church should have no say. Yes churches are private, but they used their money to fund an advertising campaign based on lies and misconceptions which was seen by a lot of people. These people were misinformed, and scared I might add, when they went and voted for Prop 8. And THAT’S why it passed.

O’Reilly is just trying to piss people off and create conflict and controversy where there is none. I can’t stand him. Yet my new goal in life is to be on his show.

President Obama

Election Day 73, originally uploaded by Oscalito.

My job requires me to watch a lot of political videos every single day. I have to watch CNN shows and MSNBC, and for the last two months I have been anxious to be able to write ‘President Obama” as part of my work. I got the do it yesterday A LOT, but it didn’t sink in until today, when I did it without thinking about it. It has a great ring to it, but at the same time, it sounds weird. He seems like such a cool, likable guy, that it’s odd that he is my new President. I’ve never liked my President. Not even Clinton, definitely not Bush. Obama has my respect and admiration. I just hope he doesn’t lose it.

What has bothered me about his election, we took such a giant step forward in equality, in hope, in breaking down barriers, yet in places like Florida, Arizona, and California, we have taken a huge step back by banning gay marriage. We are still in the same place we were on Monday. I refuse to think we are living in a new America. For one moment, I did. At 11:00pm Pacific Time, the Moment, when Obama was declared President of the United States, I felt a surge of joy that I have never felt in my life. Here in California, gay men and women could get married, and a black man was President of the United States. It was grand.

But bittersweet. The next morning, we knew the reality. Proposition 8 had passed. They won. The haters. Because that’s the only thing they are. Ignorant haters. A lot of stats bothered me. Blacks and Latinos overwhelmingly voted to ban gay marriage while voting a black man into office. Talk about hypocrisy. It makes my blood boil. At the same time, I am quietly optimistic that this is not over, and that President Obama is a rational, forward thinking human being, and will make things right. His election was a historic moment for civil rights, he should make sure it’s not tainted by the same hate and ignorance that black americans, his heritage, faced not that long ago.