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Name: Zach
Country: Canada
State: Ontario
Metro: Toronto
Birthday: 6/3/1990
Gender: Male
Interests: Japan, anime, marching knights, band, awesome calve muscles, xanga, coding, music, vid. games :D
Expertise: Marching Band, Marching Blue Knights of Prospect Highschool, Mount Prospect IL 60056, 2004-2008
Occupation: Student
Industry: Media
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AIM:  Dyno San
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MSN: 1st.lt.davenport@gmail.com
Yahoo:  rurouni_kenshin420000
Member Since:
12/26/2003
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| I think I may be clinically depressed, so if I've snapped at you. Sorry.
Later Days
Zach
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| Tonight an unbelievable and unprecedented thing happened that will be
remembered for years to come. An African-American man was elected to
the highest office in the United States of America. Be Democrat,
Republican, Independent, Green, or Andy Barr, you cannot deny the
significance that this has for the communal feelings of the United
States.
Tonight I watched every moment of election coverage that I could. I put
off trumpet, I put off Aural Skills, and I basically put off
everything, but as soon as it was announced that Barack Obama won the
election I could not contain my excitement. I ran out of my room
yelling and screaming, hugging all of my floormates as I saw them come
by. I ran down to our first floor and celebrated with more of my
friends. But nothing compares to when I walked outside to the mob of
Northern Illinois students, teachers, pedestrians, and people who were
just happy for the victory. We chanted on an on. I can confidentially
say that I Have never hugged so many random people in my life. But
then, when I got really into it, I started chanting "O-BA-MA". Low and
behold everyone around me started chanting and soon we had the entire
crowd going.
The only thing that was more enjoyable was running down Lucinda Avenue
with Richie, Maureen, and co cheering at the top of my lungs with so
many other NIU students. This is truly a defining moment in history,
and we now all need to come together and fix the peril that this
country is currently facing.
Please, to all Obama supporters, please welcome McCain fans with open
arms and be willing to compromise, and please to the McCain fans,
please help us come together as one American people and propel this
nation forward.
Yes, we can.
Forward, together forward.
This is something that I found on Digg and it really hit me deep.
Titled: I didn't vote today
I have a confession to make.
I did not vote for Barack Obama today.
I've openly supported Obama since March. But I didn't vote for him today.
I wanted to vote for Ronald Woods. He was my algebra teacher at
Clark Junior High in East St. Louis, IL. He died 15 years ago when his
truck skidded head-first into a utility pole. He spent many a day
teaching us many things besides the Pythagorean Theorem. He taught us
about Medgar Evers, Ralph Abernathy, John Lewis and many other civil
rights figures who get lost in the shadow cast by Martin Luther King,
Jr.
But I didn't vote for Mr. Woods.
I wanted to vote for Willie Mae Cross. She owned and operated
Crossroads Preparatory Academy for almost 30 years, educating and
empowering thousands of kids before her death in 2003. I was her first
student. She gave me my first job, teaching chess and math concepts to
kids in grades K-4 in her summer program. She was always there for
advice, cheer and consolation. Ms. Cross, in her own way, taught me
more about walking in faith than anyone else I ever knew.
But I didn't vote for Ms. Cross.
I wanted to vote for Arthur Mells Jackson, Sr. and Jr. Jackson
Senior was a Latin professor. He has a gifted school named for him in
my hometown. Jackson Junior was the pre-eminent physician in my
hometown for over 30 years. He has a heliport named for him at a
hospital in my hometown. They were my great-grandfather and
great-uncle, respectively.
But I didn't vote for Prof. Jackson or Dr. Jackson.
I wanted to vote for A.B. Palmer. She was a leading civil rights
figure in Shreveport, Louisiana, where my mother grew up and where I
still have dozens of family members. She was a strong-willed woman who
earned the grudging respect of the town's leaders because she never,
ever backed down from anyone and always gave better than she got. She
lived to the ripe old age of 99, and has a community center named for
her in Shreveport.
But I didn't vote for Mrs. Palmer.
I wanted to vote for these people, who did not live to see a day where
a Black man would appear on their ballots on a crisp November morning.
In the end, though, I realized that I could not vote for them any more than I could vote for Obama himself.
So who did I vote for?
No one.
I didn't vote. Not for President, anyway.
Oh, I went to the voting booth. I signed, was given my stub, and was
walked over to a voting machine. I cast votes for statewide races and a
state referendum on water and sewer improvements.
I stood there, and I thought about all of these people, who influenced
my life so greatly. But I didn't vote for who would be the 44th
President of the United States.
When my ballot was complete, except for the top line, I finally decided
who I was going to vote for - and then decided to let him vote for me.
I reached down, picked him up, and told him to find Obama's name on the
screen and touch it.
And so it came to pass that Alexander Reed, age 5, read the voting
screen, found the right candidate, touched his name, and actually cast
a vote for Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
Oh, the vote will be recorded as mine. But I didn't cast it.
Then again, the person who actually pressed the Obama box and the red
"vote" button was the person I was really voting for all along.
It made the months of donating, phonebanking, canvassing, door hanger
distributing, sign posting, blogging, arguing and persuading so much
sweeter.
So, no, I didn't vote for Barack Obama. I voted for a boy who now has every reason to believe he, too, can grow up to be anything he wants...even President.
Congrats America, and congrats especially to Mr. Barack Hussein Obama on being the 44th President of the United States.
Congrats America
Later Days,
Zach
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| So I'm extremely excited about tomorrow. I cannot wait to vote, and I cannot wait to watch all the election coverage. I'm going to the Trident to get enough food to last me the day and then I'm just chillin'. It's gonna be awesome.
Later Days,
Zach
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| Just keep on truckin'.
Thanks Bellof
Later Days,
Zach
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| UghScrew this, I just want to go home. I want to take a year off, work at a job, make some money, and then start this all over again.
Later Days,
Zach
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