dre poetic: words by adrien salazar

It’s getting down to the wire now. No literally, The Wire. See:

Well-respected and influential polls are beginning to report just how deep in the hole the McCain campaign is. Things don’t look good for McCain’t. Even his own party’s website is strangely missing mention of him only a week away from the elections.

And as the red string unravels, GOP officials are pointing fingers, struggling to get on the far side of how-it-all-went-wrong.

But it isn’t the election and Obama isn’t President yet. Carmen at Racialicious points out that it may be an uphill battle yet with voter suppression, racism, and all the usual flavors of American brand hater-ade. Here’s a poem from ill doctrine that makes it clear:

Barack Obama is running for President. We have Proposition 8 attempting to write discrimination into the California constitution. Let me be perfectly honest. This election is not about politicking, it is not about business-as-usual. This is an election season that has transformed the national landscape. Campaigns are invigorating communities and getting people to organize. New and first-time voters are set to be the biggest players in the Presidential election. And millions of Americans are ready for change.

It’s a week away folks. Rise above the spin. We all got busy lives. But history happens whether we choose to be a part of it or not. This election is about us. We who have had to fight for anything and everything that we ever got. We who are hopeful that this world can be better. We who are sick and tired of being sick and tired.

Anything worth anything has taken a lot of hard work to get. If you haven’t done anything for this election, take this last week as your own personal investment in your future, your friends, your family, and your children’s future. Do at least one thing to help out. It’s time to really turn people out and get people voting. It’s time to suck it up and take to the streets.

At the least, go vote and help your friends and family realize how important it is to vote this election. Send’em this reminder maybe:

This isn’t about pausing your life to help with some campaign. This is about getting up and pushing the play button. This is about every one of us asking ourselves what can I do to really help make the change I want to see happen. How can I be involved in the world around me to make it healthier, more just, and more empowering?

There’s a lot to be done and if you’re wondering what you can do to help in the next week, here are three easy steps folks, of which you can do a few or all:

1. Volunteer for the campaign.
2. Call or visit voters in battleground states.
3. Find and join an event in your local area.

(from Racialicious)

What are you going to be telling your kids you did in the 2008 election?