Minority Report (with respect to Jay-Z)

Here we stand a few hours before we get out to do something phenomenal here in the U.S.: VOTE. I was talking with my granny the other day. I was fuming because my friend's idiot of a spouse refused to register to vote because he didn't want to be called for jury duty. Pardon, but what kind of shit is that? Did I miss something? My granny was pissed. She said that it angers her when people refuse to recognize that people who look just like me were hosed, maltreated, and killed so that his sorry ass would have a right to cast a ballot without proving that he could read or that his grandfather wasn't a slave. His nerve offends me to the core.

I just want to say that I am very excited about getting up early and taking my daughter to stand in a line that will probably be hundreds deep to exercise my right to chose the next President. My choice? Barack Obama. I have had the fortune of seeing him speak several times and one of those was long before the Presidential race was at hand. My preschool-aged daughter will have the honor of filling in the oval that will cast our vote for a brighter future.

But what is important is that today, I pay homage to the grandmother that he lovingly called Toot. She passed away today and I have to say, thank you for rearing the man that i believe can change this country. Thank you for instilling in him the seed that grew to be determination to stand in the face of racism and smile. I am humbled to cast my ballot because I am voting for my granny. She never expected to see a Black man get this far in her lifetime. I have faith that she will see him make it once those numbers are run for the ba-zillionth time and the muck washes away.

Thank you also to those people who died, marched, and were jailed so that myself and people they had no way of knowing would even exist could vote and not be afraid. Thank you to those who saw injustice and were willing to do whatever they had to in order to right it. Thank you all. And I will do what you dreamed of me doing. I WILL VOTE.