Nicole be Thinking...

what up folks... i haven't been publishing any of my blogs lately. there are a few that need to be published and i'll find the time to go back and publish them in sequence. i've been blogging from my phone and it's hard. it doesn't have the same feeling as sitting at the computer and typing. anywho... i have to: -write a 10-12 page paper on a topic relevant to my Debate, Dissent, and Dialogue class. right now i'm playing with various ideas and deciding whether to focus my paper on the way rhetoric shapes freedom or the way rhetoric has shaped my personal feelings on patriotism. -write an 8-10 page paper on an aspect of book editing or publishing for my Book Editing in Context class. i've decided to write about the way k-12 textbooks are/have been edited and what that has done to k-12 education. i'm in DIRE need of some frickin sources! really i need a great spot to go to look at old and new textbooks so i can draw my on inferences and then find someone ...

so... america has a black president. excitement aside, what's next? history acknowledged, what does this mean for the future? really... what are WE willing to do about our future? in 2004 someone joked about obama being president after his speech at the dnc that year. i got choked up then and said, "man... if he gets that far, i will cry rare tears of joy." well... he did; and i did. last night i was moved to tears by how far we've come and the promise for where we will go. this is so big. thinking about my ancestors who were forced to come here and then weren't allowed to be american. thinking about my grandmother and her siblings who weren't allowed to go to centennial park to see the christmas lights, who lived in a city that poured cement in a swimming pool rather than integrate it. thinking about all the old people in bordeaux who voted with me in the primaries and showed up in droves to vote in the general election, tired and aching, but proud to be blac...

long meaningful post tomorrow. but it's been a while since i blogged but i'm back to say we did it! yay!