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Are you following the presidential race?
Not at all.
You’re not? You know there’s a Black guy running, Barack Obama and then
there’s Hillary Clinton.
His name is Barack?!

Barack Obama,
yeah.
Barack?!
Barack.
What the fuck is a Barack?! Barack Obama. Where he from, Africa?
Yeah, his dad is from Kenya.
Barack Obama?
Yeah.
What the fuck?! That ain’t no fuckin’ name, yo. That ain’t that
nigga’s name. You can’t be serious. Barack Obama. Get the fuck outta
here.
You’re telling me you haven’t heard about him before.
I ain’t really
paying much attention.
I mean, it’s pretty big if a Black…
Wow, Barack! The nigga’s name is
Barack. Barack? Nigga named Barack Obama. What the fuck, man?! Is he
serious? That ain’t his fuckin’ name. Ima tell this nigga when I see
him, “Stop that bullshit. Stop that bullshit” “That ain’t your
fuckin’ name.” Your momma ain’t name you no damn Barack.
So you’re not following the race. You can’t vote right?
Nope.
Is that why you’re not following it?
No, because it’s just—it doesn’t
matter. They’re gonna do what they’re gonna do. It doesn’t really make
a difference. These are the last years.
But it would be pretty big if we had a first Black president. That
would be huge.
I mean, I guess…. What, they gon’ give a dog a bone?
There you go. Ooh, we have a Black president now. They should’ve done
that shit a long time ago, we wouldn’t be in the fuckin’ position we in
now. With world war coming up right now. They done fucked this shit up
then give it to the Black people, “Here you take it. Take my mess.”
Right, exactly.
It’s all a fuckin’ setup. It’s all a setup. All fuckin’
bullshit. All bullshit. I don’t give a fuck about none of that.
We could have a female president also, Hillary Clinton.
I mean, either
way it doesn’t matter. I don’t care. No one person is directly affected
by which president, you know, so what does it matter.
Yeah, but the country is.
I guess. The president is a puppet anyway.
The president don’t make no damn decisions.
The president…they don’t have that much authority basically?
Nah, never.
But Bush pretty much…
You think Bush is making fuckin’ decisions?
He did, yeah, he fucked up the country.
He act like he making
decisions. He could barely speak! He could barely fuckin’ speak!
Can’t
be serious. He ain’t making no damn decisions.
Well Barack has a good chance of winning so that might be
something.
Good for him, good for him.

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This story circulated on the newsgroup rec.music.hip-hop and reached the archive on March 15, 2008. It is reproduced as posted — headlines, typos and all. Original source, as credited in the post: XXLMag.com.