ALPHACAT be ON IT!!!!

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Election Day 2008 Slideshow

Just a few pics from one of the greatest days EVER!!!

MY PRESIDENT IS BLACK!!!!!!!!

**Press play to hear the song!!! (Had to take it off auto-play)


What you got to say about that?!??! Words can not express how ELATED I AM!!! I just saw Michelle kiss Barack and tell him she loves him!! I just saw TEARS streaming down Jesse Jackson's face!! YES!! Jesse Motherfuckin Jackson was CRYING!!!!!!! Even his hating ass can't deny the sheer AWESOMENESS of this occasion!!

I'm so glad to have been a part of this historic day!! Say a prayer for him y'all...cuz he's gonna need it!! Folks already up in arms about him winning, but the fact of the matter is that it's a DONE DEAL!!!

GO BARACK!!! I VOTED!!! Pics of the Election Watch Party coming in a slideshow soon...

BARACK THE VOTE and My Cutiful Shirt!!!

Hey all!!!! The big day is here....EXERCISE YOUR RIGHT TO VOTE!!! OMG!!! Today is MONUMENTAL!! I'm headed for the polls at 10AM!!! I just wanted to post a pic of the shirts Iota Phi got made just for this occasion!!!



Cute, huh?! Well, yeah!!! I'm a little anxious about voting...the lines are gonna be hella long...sheesh!! But it'll all be worth it once my boy is in office!!!

An aside: A few of my white child-hood friends are expressing some pretty strong and sorrowful opinions about today through their facebook statuses...I guess I would too if the shoe were on the other foot...so I'm not going to be TOO hard on them, but they need to chill out with all this "WHOA is ME" shit....whatever happens, happens!!! "Y'all ain't ready, Y'all Ain't Ready!!! What's up, What's up!!!" LOL!!

GO VOTE, YO!!!

Minor Update

Wut it do?! I now have a working laptop pc...but the operating system is A MESS...so don't be surprised if within the next 24 days I'm incognito AGAIN! Anyhoo...just want to mention a few things quickly...

ELECTION DAY IS FREAKING LESS THAN 2 DAYS AWAY!!!!! PLEASE GO OUT AND VOTE!! Please do not sit on your asses ON THIS VERY IMPORTANT AND HISTORY MAKING DAY! I've heard a few folks say that they are not going to vote because things are sure to be hectic (with traffic, long lines at the polls, and what-not.) Shit, November 4th should be made into a National Holiday in instances like this (Pres. Elections)...NO WORK!! But because it's not...go to work...BUT GO VOTE TOO!! And if you got time at work, TAKE A FREAKIN DAY OFF!!! It's not going to hurt you if you've got the time saved up anyway.

I, personally, am making the 4th a holiday. I'm not going to classes, a friend and I are going to vote together, and then we're going out to lunch!!!! Can't wait!! My sorority chapter (Iota Phi, AKA) is also having an Election Watch Party to see how the votes turn out. It's gonna be pretty big! Oh, and we got shirts made! :-) They're cute!! I'll try to put up a pic BEFORE Tuesday...If not...maybe after.

So yeah...This week is sure to be exciting and interesting...either way!! Remember to do your part and GO VOTE!!!

Oh...and after Tuesday, this joint is getting a facelift!! That's all for now...TTYL!

Will Michelle Obama be Wearing Pink and Green Soon?

You may wonder why I ask...well according to The Swamp (yeah, I know...), Mrs. Obama has been extended an invitation to join Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. as an honorary member. This same honor was extended to Sen. Hillary Clinton who initially accepted, then declined the invitation, when she discovered that membership is exclusive and she wants to be able to work with all organizations in their endeavors. Cool Beans, whatever floats your boat. Now hold up, wait a minute. I love Michelle, and I'd love love love to call her soror, BUT, if you continue to read the article, Michelle (or better yet, her spokesperson) is under the impression that she will be allowed to "work with" the other Divine 9 sororities in the same capacity as a member (of each org). Uhh..no, that's not exactly how it works. BGLOs are inheritantly EXCLUSIVE, and once you are inducted, you are what you are. You can not work with other organizations as members of that org as well as another. It just doesn't work like that!

There seems to be a misunderstanding or a mistranslation of the situation, but since it has been reported that she accepted the invitation, she can not and will not be bestowed the same honor by the other NPHC sororities. Now if you read the comments below the article, many have been weighing in on whether or not Michelle should have accepted the invite into AKA. People think she should have remained neutral, at least until after her husband's seat in the white house was (is) secured. They say hasty judgement on her part, because she is further alienating herself from black women, black Greeks, etc.

I honestly don't know how I feel about the situation. She has not/will not be inducted during this week's activities during Boule'. Read this for more insight on that. The comments following this article are also pretty brutal. I don't know folks, but there is a lot of unecessary hate coming from other greeks and GDIs and I think it's kind of ridiculous. People say Michelle doesn't fit the bill, but I beg to differ. She is an intelligent, successfull woman--an attorney and political activist. She is also an outstanding role model for young women. I think she will be a wonderful addition to our list of honoraries. And even if Barack doesn't win the Presidential Election, Michelle can still inact change in her's and surrounding communities and be a wonderful viable asset to the sorority. Her husband's possible post as commander-in-chief may have inspired the decision to extend her an invitation, but at the end of the day, Michelle Obama is a great woman, regardless.

In the same vein, I think before accepting the invitation, she (or her spokesperson) should have done a little research and understood that there is no such thing as "non-exclusive" membership as an honorary member of an EXCLUSIVE sorority. As one person from a message board I frequent put it, "Cultural Competence". Maybe her spokesperson is responsible for this "mix-up" in that if the person is of another ethnicity/cultural background (because I will not ASSume that s/he is white), they may be speaking soley on non-experience and what they MAY think they know about GLOs. The spokesperson may think of AKA as the typical run-of-the-mill philanthropy/charity that anyone can be apart of, as opposed to a business boasting over 200,000 inducted EXCLUSIVE MEMBERS.

One thing is for sure, whether Michelle (or spokesperson) is confused or not, is that she should be able to work with all NPHC sororities, and BGLOs in general. Just as Greeks on college campuses should do more to UNITE for the COMMON CAUSE OF SERVICE (which is what I will be fighting to improve this year since I am Greek and henceforth a member of UAB NPHC), Greeks should allow her to assist in any endeavors she takes an interest in, regardless of her affiliation, ESPECIALLY if she becomes the First Lady. I believe that we are Greek first and foremost, and where affiliations, colors, and letters divide us--they should also unite us, because each letter is apart of a whole Greek alphabet, colors--our orgs DO NOT OWN, and affiliations should not stop us from working together for the betterment of our BLACK COMMUNITY!

In closing, to the naysayers, yeah, maybe she should have waited. But who knows for sure that she would get the chance to accept such an invitation ever again?! There was no AKA chapter at Princeton when she attended, so here's her chance, ya know. But wait...is she just accepting to be nice, does she even want to be an AKA?!!?! Maybe she does, and that's why the invite was extended to her in the first place...maybe this observation is a bit personal and unwarranted. I'm just hella curious tho...but I digress. I will keep my eyes and ears open as to what will further go down with this situation, and keep y'all posted. So yeah, Good day, mates. Tomorrow is FRIDAY!!!!!!

Damn, y'all I'm sorry, but...

Bad news is abounding today. While Scumbucket Robert Kelly gets acquitted for shit that he actually did, Tim Russert, host of NBC's Meet The Press died TODAY.

Click the Link for the story. This is so sad, because I liked this dude man. I didn't watch his show fa real, but he seemed like a fair kinda guy when it came to interviewing major political leaders, Democratic and Republican alike. Me and my dad were just talking about how cool duke was, how he seemed to be rooting for Obama and stuff (even if secretly, I sensed it). Regardless of where he stood on political views, it is always sad to see a TV personality of his caliber die.

My condolences go to his family, friends, and co-workers. This is crazy. Jesus is on his way y'all...we gotta get it together. What a Friday the 13th this is turning out to be. I think I AM staying in tonight. SHEESH!!!

R.I.P. Man...

GET ON THE OBAMA TRAIN!!!!!

-----> Getting that shirt!

Ladies and gentlemen!! Barack Obama!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am so proud of how far we have come as a country, even if others feel my happiness is unwarranted, premature, or whatever. No one can deny that we, as African Americans, and this country have MADE HISTORY!!!! Barack Obama is the first African American (half or otherwise) to be a presidential candidate for a major politcal party. It is 2008 people!! This is the year of NEW BEGINNINGS for ME, for you, for this country!!!

I can't wait to go on my BUSH tirade. But I still have a few months to go. I will hold off until January '09 when it won't get me in trouble to go the fuck off about how BAD of a job Bush did as President of this country for 8 agonizing years. Lord have mercy on us all.

Everybody say a prayer for the MAN WITH A PLAN FOR CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN!!!

VOTE VOTE VOTE!

I know I have to get my shit straight when I get back to Birmingham so my vote won't be counted as absentee. Who knows what they do with those votes. My new mantra is to HANDLE BUSINESS and HANDLE IT WELL!!!

I believe in Barack, and I will be doing my own personal campaigning for him. I'm going to invest in Barack para and wear it all the time, especially in November.

It's time for change people!! Are you ready?!

--An AKA for OBAMA!!!!

~When Obama takes the floor at the Democratic Convention to officially accept the nomination it'll be 45 years to the day of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech. How's that for history?~