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Letters to the President

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009

while working on the Obama campaign i came across letters written by 1st and 2nd graders from around berkeley. all made me smile or laugh but several also revealed ills in our society as seen thru a child’s eyes. i made copies so i thought i would share all the letters here. All were written on October 21, 2008 and transcribed exactly as written:

Dear President,
I would like t.v.s and computers and frogs tanks on ours desks. I would like frogs in class.
Sincerely yours, Harry

Dear President,
I would like you to put 16 computers in my class room. I want to go to bed when its midnight. I want to drink chocolate milk before I go to bed.
Love, Quaseem

Dear President,
I would like Obama to win The Vote. I would like to bring a DVD to school. I would like to stay at school.
Sinceely Yours, Imani

Dear President,
I would like School to be longer. I would like to learn much more. I would like to do science everyday.
Sincerely Your, Khopera

Dear President,
I would like something to happen in my school. I would want to get out of school at the next day. I would like to keep playing and playing and have hot chocolate from Starbucks with whipped cream and extra caffine and strawberry and blueberry ice cream with sour gummy worms.
Sincerely, Jason

Dear President,
I would like a nice park in Vallejo, California. I would like to have everyone to go to bed at midnight. I would like all of the children to have coffoe during class. I would like children to drink chocolate milk befour we go to bed. I would like for us to not go to school on Monday.
Sincerely, Regina

Dear President
I want to be the President. I like Obama. Will you be the president?
Sincerely yours, Shaunte

Dear President,
I would like you to give Black People more money than White People. I would like you to make more video games and for kids to have coffee. I would like if you stop the war and for you to make stores free and for everybody to go to the doctor even if they don’t have money.
Sincerely, Njata

Dear President,
I would like school to be only on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays and science every day at school.
Sincerely yours,
Chase

Dear President,
I would like you to put computers in our school.
Sincefely yours, Kanya

Dear President,
I would like Obama to be the President. I would like to bring costume to school.
Sincerely Yours, Allen

Dear President,
I would like you to give the world some more money. I would also like some more education. I would also like some more love to the world.
Sincerely Yours, Ahmara

…………as you can see, some requests are beautiful in their simplicity and some painful in their complexity. good luck mr president!!! i am behind you 100%.

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my own real-america credentials….

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

yes, i think i have them. i was raised in san antonio, TX, a large but provincial-feeling city. before i moved to oakland, san antonio was the largest city i’d lived in. from there it went like this:

Lubbock, TX – attended texas tech university – home of buddy holly, gettin’ your guns up, prairie-dog town, dust storms and drink specials that launched a thousand alcoholics. it did have a bar that was “gay” one night a week (that would be thursday) but mostly that just meant better music. hair was big and democrats were rare. i was co-chair of the young republican campaign to elect GHW Bush. i openly mocked my one Democratic sorority sister. being dem was not socially acceptable.

Amarillo, TX – my first real job sent me to a string of towns full of “real americans”. I headed north thru a patchwork of pan-flat farms, past plainview and happy to amarillo, home of “the big texas steak ranch” where if you finish their 72 ounce steak (that’s 4 and 1/2 lbs!) it’s FREE.. it’s here that i got serious about droppin’ my g’s. everything you are about to do – you are “fixin'” to do.

Wichita Falls, TX – the two biggest things to happen to wichita falls were “the last picture show” (which was filmed just outside of town) and a 1979 F5 tornado that was so big that people were killed when they emerged, thinking the tornado had past, only to find that it was the eye of the tornado. then the back-side hit. a terrible thing, but some of the guys i worked with at jc penney’s still got a twinkle in their eye 10 years later when they talked about patrolling the parking lot with shotguns to prevent looting (tho they admitted there were no looters). here i learned about stock-car racing and my landlord ate onions like apples. in a red cross blood-drive raffle i won a night with my fiancee at the presidential suite at the wichita falls sheraton – the only thing i’ve ever won in a raffle. sigh.

Enid, OK – a turning point for me and my then-hubby john. the decade that proceeded our arrival was a tough one for enid. the oil bust hit it hard and the local folk were surly. tho they still adhered to the index-finger-steering-wheel wave on the back roads, if you headed out past the carbon-black plant or the genuine sod-house you could find small town antique stores with plenty of genuine nazi paraphernalia. enid is 90% white. fact. here i heard about annual pilgrimages to branson, MO and participated in a cultural-sensitivity training course that would make “The Office” blush. this was the worst 1.5 yrs….of….my….life. i saw unparalleled ignorance and bigotry and i’d had my fill of small-town america. i swore i’d never cross the red river into OK again and i haven’t.

so ms palin, i know of whom you speak. never EVER have i lived among more unconditionally kind, generous and extremely hard-working americans and hopeful immigrants as i live among here in the bay area of california. words cannot even convey my disgust of your ignorant comments. you are pandering to the very lowest common-denominator and if you win, it does not bode well for America.

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i just couldn’t resist

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
i don't know whether to laugh or cry!!

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