As I was rushing to an inauguration event yesterday, my best girl from high school, a NY Ecuadorian, sent me an email that asks many good questions and uses many ellipses.

I mean i get it… it’s historical and shit but damn it i feel like all this hoopla cuz he’s black is missing the point of having a black president to begin with. He should be treated like any other president… I’ve never heard of this many parties or concerts before… maybe they existed but the media is milking it and let’s face it… we don’t even know how he’ll be as a president!!! I mean i voted for him cuz he was a better candidate than the other guy.. NOT cuz of the color of his skin. I feel like people are making a bigger deal of his skin color than of the things that he’s gonna have to fix once he gets in office.

And people keep saying that this shows the world is changing… Sorry but I don’t think having Obama all the way in DC is gonna stop someone from killing our people on the streets… of stabbing someone cuz they look Mexican.. or Gay.. or whatever. Having a black president doesn’t make this less of a racist world. Why don’t people see that? I want to know what’s gonna happen after the parties…

I mean I understand the historical significance.. I got a little misty eyed myself when he won and I read his speech later… I do get it. but damn… this is all we need… white people already think we use any excuse to party…

and I’m venting to you cuz if I blogged about this it wouldn’t fit in between my corney baby pooping drama and I didn’t want to get hate comments. I sound like a crazy Obama hater… and i knew you wouldn’t leave me hate comments… so tell me… help me.. explain to me… cuz I can’t bring myself to care that Shakira sang with Stevie Wonder. I do care what’s gonna happen with me being so broke I can’t afford to buy pullups for my daughter… of people being overseas killing and dying…

Since we here at VL get so much hate mail anyway, I posted her email, with her permission porque well, she has a point, no?