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Edited on Sun Oct-31-10 10:40 PM by FrenchieCat
Hubby normally wouldn't have come, but I told him I needed a partner...so off we went.
Beautiful day.....as when I went yesterday (without the hubby) it was raining.
We were assigned the streets behind Eastmont Mall (Foothill, Church street going from 62nd to 69th),
an area which is probably one of the poorest and blackest/brownest areas in the East Bay.
That's why I asked my hubby to come along.....as yesterday was kind of iffy with me dealing
by my lonesome....and I ended up quitting early.
Lots of dogs and "Beware of Dog" signs.
Lots young people outside in their cars, just chillin' with the music blarin'.
Lots of security fences and doors.
A few handwritten signs on doors saying "we do not have candy, please do not knock on door".
A few padlock on houses that seemed empty, i.e., possibly foreclosed on (although no sign),
or evicted.
We didn't stick too close to the address list we were given, as we decided to also
talk to the people out in the streets. Plus there were a few security apartment complex
that we couldn't get into, which made it impossible to knock on individual doors.
We placed OFA literature on cars in the parking lot of those apartment complexes,
since that is all that we could do. It appeared that lost of other Democratic groups
had been were we were.
One woman whose bell we rang, stated that she didn't want anymore literature,
because she would be voting, but had more information than she needed already.
We talked to people in the streets. I told most I came in contact to make sure to vote
on Tuesday, because this election was almost more important than the one that put Pres. Obama
in office, because otherwise, we were going to have to deal with those Teabaggers,
and they are bat-shit crazy.
Most said they would be voting again, and some asked if we knew where their polling station
was located. Most agreed that the Tea party people were crazy, when I mentioned them.
One said, she wasn't voting for Jerry Brown, and that she and someone else had been discussing
that just the other day.....because she said that when he was Mayor of Oakland,
he had messed everything up. My hubby corrected her and said that if it wasn't for
Jerry Brown bringing in the dollars to gentrify Oakland, we'd be in even worse shape now.
Later on, another said basically the same thing about Jerry Brown,
but said that she thought that Meg would be even worse.
I suggested that she hold her nose, and vote. She said....guess I will have to. She wasn't smiling.
I also reminded her to vote for Barbara Boxer too! She said, what has she done that was good?
I told her that she had supported Barack Obama's agenda from day one.
She said....well then, OK.
We approached a car full of young men parked in an apartment driveway.
My husband took the lead, and told them to vote for Prop 19,
so that the police would have less reason to warehouse us in jails.
They smiled and seemed to like the thought of voting for that. LOL!
One youngish woman going into the house with a bag full of groceries
said that she would not be voting this time,
because as far as she was concerned, she wanted to sit back and watch White people get fucked over,
since she'd been getting fucked over for all of her years (her words).
I told her that Pres. Obama needs us to give him the tools to continue his agenda....
and that if everyone thought like her, we'd never have gotten Obama in office.
She responded.....you see the good that done did us? They are treating him like shit and then some!
She said....I want to see them lose everything because that is the only thing they will ever understand.
My husband, the Baptist Minister said to her...Sorry you feel this way,
as there are White volunteers on these same streets, doing what we are doing,
but please....have a blessed day.
One young girl, who might have been only 16 if that (cause we asked a carful of youngesters if anyone of them was old enough to vote), got out of the car...was dressed as a fairy, and must have been 7 months pregnant. My husband gave her the OFA pamphlet and asked that she give it to her mother.
One hispanic man, who opened his door said this about the tea party.....
whether they like it or not, they can only slow down the Brown/Black take over of America,
but they cannot stop it. He'll be voting, he said, because it is his duty as an American.
After sweating and running up and down apartment stairs for 4 hours, we stopped.
How do I feel? Well, let's just say when we got back into our car, the news was on KGO, and they were talking about how the Republicans were going to take back the house.
I asked my husband to turn off the propaganda machine....and off we went to give back our
clipboard completed to the OFA guy that I had called and would be waiting for us at Concordia
Park.
We went to Nations' Burger immediately afterward, and I ate like a pig.
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