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• Back to the Election...

  Posted: August 29, 2008, 11:02 pm by Beve

  I feel like life in America opened up a bit today. Today, for the first time ever, I think we who live in America, especially as minorities can now say that anyone can at least RUN to be president of the United States.

  No matter who wins, history will be made on either side, and that's pretty cool in and of itself. I think Palin and Obama prove several things:

  1. Race and Gender can no longer be a limiting factor in deciding a runningmate or nominating a presidential candidate
  2. America IS ready for a woman and black president, so please stop asking
  3. As a Black Woman, I am encouraged that I will be represented a bit on both sides at least superficially, although I am much more interested about policy, hence my vote for Obama
  4. You don't have to be in Washington or in politics long to hope to be president
  5. You don't have to be really old either

  So, today you really can tell that little minority kid or little girl that they too can be POTUS (President of the United States)

  
  

• Cool Runnings

  Posted: August 21, 2008, 7:48 pm by Beve

  
  

  I had not been watching the Olympics at all this year, just not really jazzed by any particular event or competition. Then, I opened my firefox browser one day, and saw that some kid had just broken a world record in the 100m dash.  Big deal, I thought, records fall all the time, and after Phelps 8 medals I thought the last thing I want to watch is more herofication. But after seeing the news on every major newspaper, I decided to watch the race. What a treat! Usain Bolt astounded everyone.  Then did it again a couple days later and won the 200m race. To quote Tom Fordyce of the BBC Olympic's blog "19.30 seconds? Jaws dropped. Gobs were smacked, flabbers were gasted."

  As if that wasn't enough, the women had to out do the men, with Veronica Campbell-Brown winning Gold in 200m

  Melaine Walker winning Gold in 400m Hurdles, (with braces on her teeth and a Mohawk, very cool!)

  Shelly-Ann Fraser winning Gold in 100m

  (and Jamaica going 1-2-3 with Silver and Bronze in that race).

  
  

  All I can say is it looks like the era of British and American domination of Track and Field is nearing its sunset. 

  
  Check out the celebration going on in Jamaica

• I'm Baaaaaack!

  Posted: August 16, 2008, 6:47 pm by Beve

  Hello faithful readers!

  I just got back in the States after a 4 month stint in the Cradle of Mankind. I had a great time and was inspired by so much that it will take some time to get all the lovely Kenya posts going. I'll start by more photos of the Fashion for Peace event I attended waaay back in May, including the above photo of the venue inside the beautiful Nairobi National Park, and below of media section. Now that I have faster internet (it took excruciatingly long to upload even one photo in Kenya because of bandwidth read this post by White African for more on connectivity in Kenya).

Blah blah blah

Fish cakes

Alas a fish cake.

Yet more fish cakes

Guess what ... yeah ... fish cakes.

The end of the fish cakes