Obama wins. A bittersweet win for California.

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Obama wins, so stop asking me if something bad is going to happen.

I was in downtown LA and several white people asked me if I thought something bad would happen to Obama and I say to people who don’t have faith in Americans that, no nothing bad is going to happen to Obama.

He won over-whelmingly. He won over-whemingly because of white people and that should be noted.

If it was a squeaker I might have had some concerns, but this election showed me some things.

A country can change. If you throw it into financial ruin like the Republican party did, people can see a lot more clearly. There are some things that are more important to people than race and anything can happen.

Thank-you Bush. I am happy that I voted Green for all of those years, because if I had not this day would have never happened. Sometimes you have to hit bottom before you finally get it. Natural consequence is the best lesson.

This country is about people who are very rich and people who are not.

Exxon made more money this year than they have ever made.

I also think that while this country still has many issues with race, gender and class that we all want to have a good life and voting for a person that will give us something better comes before all of the other prejudices that we might have.

Hopefully we won’t just stop here. As I walked around downtown LA today I walked over multitudes of homeless people. And to me the disparity in regards to economics is the next fight.

While the good of this election is that Obama won and Prop 4 (the teen notification for abortion) failed, unfortunately Prop 5 (the alternative for nonviolent offenders) failed and Prop 8 (the “protection” of marriage) passed, which are both big failures.

I think the non-overwhelming support of Obama in California points to some real problems in the golden state.

In New York and even New Jersey, Obama won with over 60 percent of the vote.

Obama won California in about the same degree that he won North Carolina and Florida. 

Also with the passage of Prop 8 it points to some real problem within California.

I am happy that Obama won. Not because he was African-American, but because he was the best candidate and because people didn’t let his race be a problem in regards to voting for him.

The Obama victory is not just for African-Americans, but a victory for everyone and the biggest group of people in this country that votes is white.

I think an Obama win says a lot for this new generation of white people. I am pretty astounded.  I have to apologize to the white people of this country, because I truly didn’t think that you would vote for a black man for president.

I’m being honest. I was fully expecting his defeat, mainly because of white racism.

I didn’t even want to talk about Obama because I feared that me saying anything in support of him would be a reason for racists to not vote for him and I think that’s a feeling a lot of black people were feeling. Whether they were politicians, writers or bloggers.

African-Americans are barely 10% of this country. We’re only 6% of the population in California.

This win was a win for America.

White people, Asian people, Latino people, biracial people in addition to black people are who put Obama into office. And I think that says a lot.

I have always said to friends of mine who liked to go on and on about Canada (my home country) that America with all it’s flaws was one of the most open countries in regards to the average Joe and Jane on the street. And today we the average Americans proved the corporate media wrong. Today I am happy that I live here and feel secure in my choice to not go back to Canada. After all Canada is closer to Alaska. I don’t want to be able to wave to Alaska from my front porch.

I have hope that with this Obama win that we can overcome other problems in America.

Problems like sexism, nationalism, classism, and homophobia, because it’s obvious in those areas we still need a lot of work, but I truly think that a difference will come.

The legalized slavery of immigrants from all parts of the world in this country must stop.

To my gay and lesbian sisters and brothers in California whose hearts I know are breaking owing to the passage of Prop 8 please keep hope, because equality will happen. And I will actively join your fight for that. I will make a conscious effort on this blog to point out inequalities in regards to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people.

This is a bittersweet win for California.

We can’t win all of the battles, but we are winning the war.

by Browne Molyneux