Okay party people. So I’ve just landed in Chicago on a mission to grab my child’s mother and drag her to the polls caveman style.  I keep calling her, but now she’s not answering the phone. I guess she’s mad because I called her ghetto. She was quick to remind me that we all come from the ghetto, including myself. However, I believe there’s a difference between being poor and being BROKE. When your mentality is, “I don’t know if I can”, “I don’t know if I will”, or “This may not be possible,” that’s being BROKE.  It’s a mindset.

I believe that we can be middle-class even with no money, if our mentality maintains a dignity of strong character.

A friend of mine told me that there has been some extreme voter intimidation tactics in Indianapolis, IN.  Reportedly, there are two men dressed in gorilla costumes with Obama signs trying to provoke Black crowds at certain polling places to jump and attack them–in which case would disqualify them from voting. Maybe one or two, or maybe the whole crowd, depending on how many participate in any such attack.

Let’s not be thrown off our game.
Let’s stay as focused as Barack was when facing down the racist campaign techniques of the Clintons and McCains.

I leave you with a picture of the children I’m fighting for.
My children.

Solomon and Amirah Smith.