It's a Party (Black woman in Comrade Maxine's district votes GOP & gets dissed)

Baldilocks ^ | 3.2.04 | Juliette Ochieng

[mhking]

Did the VLWC try to invalidate my vote? You decide.

I walk in, hand over my ID and two people with separate lists check my name against my address. Then, a third person hands me my ballot. I didn't notice either of the first two tell the third which party I was a member of and, to my own chagrin, I didn’t look at the ballot at first. I merely said ‘thank you’ and headed toward one of the two Republican voting booths. “No, no,” said the third person, a woman. “Go to one of those booths.” She was pointing at one of the five Democrat booths. I looked down at my ballot and it was a Democrat one. I walked over and handed it back to her.

“Aren’t you a Democrat?” she asked ponderously. “No, ma’am,” I said with military precision. “I’m a Republican.”

Suddenly, in a polling place deep in the heart of Maxine Water’s congressional district, it got real quiet; not a menacing quiet—these were older, presumably church-going folk—but quiet nonetheless. I received the correct ballot, went to the correct booth, did my thing and got out of there, with eyes burning holes in my back.

Guess it goes with the territory; like for being left-handed and bald-headed.

[mhking]

[mhking]

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[Pamlico]

You go GIRL!

[farmfriend]

Short list.

[L.N. Smithee]

I don't know what Marxine's so upset about regarding Haiti. After the Rodney King riots set her district on fire, she refused to call it a "riot," instead calling it a "rebellion." So why all the whining when an authentic rebellion ousted Aristide? Hmm? HMMMM?

[cyborg]

Good for her. In and out, leaving those democrat losers in the lurch.

[cmsgop]

I like her alot !!!!!!!

[Cicero]

I had to look at her bio to see why she shaves her head. Interesting woman. She seems to know her own mind.

[cripplecreek]

Precisely why my black friends are afraid of putting a BUSH/CHENEY sign in their yards. It's really quite sad when they can't openly support what they believe.

[adakota]

That's a good one! Way to go.

Are the Democrats guilty of stereotyping? Can't be.

[mr.sarcastic]

Inter-racial stereotyping amongst African-Americans...? Isn't Maxine always railing against racial stereotypes? No hypocrisy here.....

[KellyAdmirer]

I imagine the experience for the people there was akin to a German in Berlin meeting a Jew on the street shortly after World War II. That particular complex set of emotions is alien to me. Perhaps it would be like meeting Klaatu on the subway.

[cyborg]

A klaatu?

[KellyAdmirer]

The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951).

[ApplegateRanch]

Not even this opinionated, outspoken, half-bald, fat, old white f@rt would be so stupid & insensitive as to steretype like those bigots did.

[cyborg]

hehehe... I put it in google and was wondering why all the movie stuff was coming up!

[mr.sarcastic]

oops... make that intra-racial stereotyping

[atomicpossum]

I'm sorry, but perhaps you didn't understand: Your skin color requires you to be a Democrat. Perhaps you missed the orientation....[/sarcasm]

All the best in keeping your views in the face of adversity.

[NonValueAdded]

Sweet Mother of Mercy, she was profiled! Call Jessie Jackson! get Reverend Sharpton! That dude with the wild hair! Louis Farr... er, whatwasthatyousaid? She wanted to vote --- Republican?

<Emily Latella>nevermind</Emily Latella>

[jackbill]

Does she know how welcome she would be at Free Republic?