Let's talk PROP 8 people...

While I respect and support everyone's right to love and marry who they want.

I will be damned if I will sit back and say nothing while some people try to compare the fight for gay marriage to the civil right movements. I cannot sit back and allow you to say that your right to marry is the same as the right to vote, the right to go to the same schools or have the same pay wages and jobs.

Don't compare your protests to the Rodney King riots or the march on Washington!

WTF?!?

As I stated, I support the rights for everyone to love and marry but I cannot support the comparsion for the rights for gays to marry to that of people of color's right to live. No one has ever tried to take that from you....ever.

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The Shaun says this...

While Obama's win was a giant step forward...we are not there yet.

Peep out the results of these votes that were as held Tuesday

Arkansas voted to ban adoptions by gay couples

California voted to ban gay marriages (PROP 8)

Nebraska voted to abolish affirmative action

We are not there yet people....not yet

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Even through all the hours of volunteering, miles of travel, days of anticipation; I could never have imagined a feeling like this. A feeling that cannot be described…a historic feeling.

Through voter registration drives, phone banks shifts, campaign rallies and debate watching parties. I could never have imagined that I would be a part of something my kids could be so proud of me for.

As the day approached, a sense of numbness came over me as I continued to do my small part to be a part of history. A numbness that removed any feeling of counting pre-hatched eggs of historic proportions. Even as momentum grew, I did not let my efforts become complacent.

I think of the sacrifices and hours I gave then sit in awe as I realize they don’t even compare to what he gave for this…historic opportunity.

Everyone dreams of that story they can tell their kids, their grandkids and great-grandkids. The story that always can be summed up with these words…

I WAS THERE.

I was there in Springfield he first asked the nation to say, “Yes We can!”

I was there in the room of dozens calling voters in other states to tell them about this great man.

I was there when I had to say good-bye to Trinity and Daddy J.

I was there in Denver when he accepted the nomination, united a party and ignited a nation.

I was there among the hundreds who registered last minute voters in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Ohio.

I was there when people opened their homes to watch the debates with strangers held by the common belief that CHANGE and HOPE are possible.

I was there when a young boy asked “VOTE FOR MY BETTER TOMORROW”

I was there when hundreds of thousands voted early in record numbers.

I was there when we called on millions of young voters to take back their country and show this country that our generation is not lost.

I was there in Indiana and Ohio when we believed that we could turn RED into BLUE.

I was there when 250,000 waited outside of Grant Park, the site of race riots just 40 years ago, in hopes of being there when history was made.

I was there when each electoral vote was awarded…

16

Then 70

Then 130

Then 197

Then 207

Then 273

And finally 292

I was there when we danced in Grant Park when he won.

I was there when strangers hugged each other and cried in each other’s arms, overcome by the emotion of the moment.

I was there when many called their loved ones to share the news.

I was there as they sold T-shirts, buttons, towels so we’d never forget this night.

I was there when Oprah and Jesse cried.

I was there when 250,000+ screamed “Yes We Can” as he walked on stage.

I was there.

Never in my life…even during the campaign did I expect to feel such a joy that could be compared to the births of my children. Yet there I was…calling my little girls in tears to let them know that I loved them and to remind them that this night proves that anything can happen and importantly to look to this day if they ever doubt what they are capable of.

I was there when millions celebrated in the streets all of the country as if they celebrated a new year when in fact they were celebrating a new day, a new country and a new belief in to what is possible.

I was there the next morning as everyone scrambled to newsstands to pick up their piece of history.

I was there as to witness homeless men and women smile from ear to ear to spend their only dimes and nickels on anything with his face on it.

I was there.

I was there.

I was there and nothing can compare to that. No one can take that from me.

Yet life goes on…as will I. Back to my life before “I was there”; before history was made as a nation said “Yes we can”.

So as my hair turns grey and my children grow, I now have my old man story that I will tell over and over. I have my story that will define my generation. A story I hope will inspire all and motivate others. A story that will be read by those that weren’t there so that they may create their own “I was there” moment.

I may not have been there when ROSA SAT

Or when MARTIN WALKED

But damn it…I was there when OBAMA RAN

And I pray that I am there when OUR CHILDREN FLY

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By now, everyone is aware of the tragic double murder of the mother and brother of Jennifer Hudson. With the recent release of her album, a movie and her recent engagement; Jen should have been living on cloud 9 but now her world has been shook to its core.

The picture above is of her 7 year nephew Julian who is currently missing and may have witnessed the horrible act.

While a suspect has been name and is being questioned, fact remains Julian has not been found...and that is now the priority here in Chicago.

The Shaun says this...

Regardless of what you think of celebrities...they are people like us. The Shaun could spend hours reading bullshit gossip columns about celebs making fun of them, exposing their secrets and just in general starting bullshit. No one...no matter what money they make or if they work in the public eye...should deal with such BULLSHIT!

I know that had little to do with this tragedy but just a day before you could read bullshit gossip blogs called Jenn's engagement bogus and naming David has the next K-Fraud! That her career was failing because her CD sales...SHUT THE FUCK UP!!

How the fuck do you feel now assholes?!

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I Think I just wetted myself.

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WHY DIDN'T ANYONE TELL THE SHAUN MARIAH CAREY WAS ACTUAL GONNA BE IN ANOTHER MOVIE??!?!

The Shaun cannot take such a catastrophe..first the stock market...now this!!

WHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHY!?!?!?

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The Shaun just got his first licks in on the beta....and HOLY THIS IS THE FUCKING SHIT BATMAN!!!

Everything is coming from all directions and LEVELS. My ass is getting shot from a dude on top of a building.

Bless Insonmiac for reverting the controls to more of a COD4 controls!! Yes yes yes!!

The Shaun only had foreplay with the online of the first game so The Shaun is still getting smoked so far...dominance will come with time.

The Shaun wants more!!!!

Once thing The Shaun does not like is having to pick up weapons and not having more choices to customize classes...just not a fan of it. Got spoiled from COD4 I guess.

Either way...it is still fun as hell.

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