To be a part of history is a nebulous thing. That said history has been made and will be made and we will all be a part of it. Today’s history started with a quick 5 minute walk to my polling place to cast my vote for the candidate of my choosing. Upon arriving I was greeted by a line that reminded me of the lines to get tickets to see Star Wars, except this line move more quickly. While listening to The Roots “Rising Down” and reading a book on computer forensics I did not even notice the nearly 35 minutes that passed as the line crept and crawled its way to the front door of the place where upon entry I would checked, confirmed and shuttled over to the voting machine to cast my ballot. After realizing that I did not recall the number for my Election District and that there are 4 or 5 Election districts in this particular polling center I girded my loins for what I could only surmise to be mildly heated protracted debate with the election volunteers to get information. While discovering that some search engines are not as good as their own press, I had the epiphany to check Google. Google had the foresight to place a link on their home page to allow those in need of the information to find it quickly. “Great, I am in District 81, and I am on the right line…and the longest line here….and we have not moved for 25 minutes”. At the same time I was being serenaded by a chorus of vicious malcontents who were down right upset that the lines were so long and that they never had to wait so long before and that there was something foul afoot that was threatening to undermine the validity of this election at this particular polling place. In my mind I said “What the F***”????!!!! I mean really, here we are making history with the first African American presidential candidate the second woman Vice Presidential Candidate which generate record turnouts and they were shocked at the wait?
Some days I am surprised by people and the battles they choose to fight. But in the end as one of the election volunteers reminded one of the malcontents “the important thing is that you are here to be a part of this historic moment”
‘Nuff said
