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There is an old song with the line, "Let's get it all out in the open." I keep hearing Bobby Blue Bland, but it could be Johnny Taylor. Any of ya'll know? Anyway,...I've gone from troubled to angry and just a little bit skeered ya'll. Can somebody please clarify for me just who the... we have become? Not just as black folks but as human beings. Just who was it, which god, that delivered the call to manifest hate, inequity and hypocrisy?

Ya'll do me a favor? If you have a mirror handy, please go get it. I want to ask you a couple of questions, and I want you to be able to look into your

My name is Ryan E. Poole. I was born in 1971 in Ann Arbor Michigan (GO BLUE :) and I am a 37 year old African American male now living in Huntsville, AL. I lived in Michigan with my mother until I was 10 years old. As part of the first wave of Generation X’ers growing up in the north, I rarely experienced what I call racism. From 1st to 4th grade, I had to ride the bus 20 or 30 miles across town by myself in order to attend a fairly integrated private Christian school. Because I attended a church sponsored school, politics was rarely the subject of a lesson. I honestly cannot even

Check this out.  Black voters can be the difference makers in key swing states. 

We have 20 days remaining to get more eligible Black voters registered and supporting Barack Obama.

• In Colorado there are 110,000 eligible black voters. Only 50,000 voted in 2004.
• In Ohio there are 860,000 eligible black voters. Only 380,000 voted in 2004. (Remember Kerry lost by only 120,000