Obama Victory at Tuckers Kozy Korner
Posted by justin on 05 Nov 2008 at 05:22 pm | Tagged as: adventure day, announcements, art paparazzi, image & sound, in yo face, vs.
Posted by justin on 05 Nov 2008 at 05:22 pm | Tagged as: adventure day, announcements, art paparazzi, image & sound, in yo face, vs.
[...] UPDATE: Justin just posted some photos and videos of the night over at Emvergeoning. Here’s the video: [...]
No offense, but the coverage centering around the black community’s reaction to the President-elect’s victory is starting to border on patronizing.
He will not be the Black President of the United States. He will be the President of the United States.
A special trip to Tucker’s seems a little tokenistic (if I can make up a word).
My two cents.
steve – easy to agree with you on one hand, but in this case, we just wanted to make the rounds last night of various places and scenes of people watching the election (or me and Jess did, cant speak for Ben necessarily) I think our thought was that the place to go downtown on our bicycles that was close and would have a good little interesting scene would be Tuckers.. and after going to the official party first @ El Tropicana .. we did just that.
I think we were very glad to be able to hear the final result from a tight little corner in that room, and really glad for the choice our country made. Not only that, but I think Ben just really likes the way they make his drinks over at Tuckers.
I hear you. I contemplated walking down to Tucker’s myself, but I was too tired.
No offense, but the coverage centering around the black community’s reaction to the President-elect’s victory is starting to border on patronizing.
Point taken. Let me explain my reasons for wanting to witness this moment at Tucker’s.
First, I wanted to be in a place where I really felt the history of the moment — for me, and my friends, a lot of the excitement just comes from having someone in the White House who is at once thoughtful, eloquent, and progressive. In a sense, the election of Obama is an affirmation of my identity, because he cares about ideas, and he understands and harnesses the true the power of language. But I wanted to be around people who would really feel this moment as the culmination of a life long civil rights struggle. The emotion was so deeply felt, in a way that I can’t really understand, but I could experience second-hand.
Second, I wanted to be there to remind myself of how far we still have to go to achieve real racial equality. This is still the black neighborhood. And it still has deeper social problems than many of the other neighborhoods in the city. That didn’t change on Tuesday, and it won’t change in the next four years or eight years. This election was an important step in that regard, but we shouldn’t forget the reality “on the ground.” (And unlike you, Steve, I don’t live in the midst of that reality).
Being at Tucker’s on Tuesday did, in fact, give me a deeper appreciation of the symbolic power of having a black president, but it also reminded me that true racial equality in America is still a dream to be fought for.
Of course these are all personal reasons, and I agree that from a broader perspective, there’s a real danger in focusing too much on the black community’s reaction. But I think for everyone in media, it’s hard to turn away from that kind of raw emotion.
get over it steve… tucker’s has been established as THE novelty/spectacle venue of choice for this community ..
since way before the election…
That’s fantastic. Somebody should tell Tucker’s that white people only go in there to watch the black people make spectacles of themselves. I’m sure that will go over really well.
ha! who said white or black??
I did.
… ooooookay
being cryptic/clever/sarcastic is so last season…
No offense, but Steve’s patronizing reaction to the President-elect’s victory is starting to border around the centering coverage.
He will not be the Black President of Neoaztlan. He will be the White or Black President of Neoaztlan.
A special trip to Emvergeoning seems a little tokenistic (which is in fact a word).
My two walnuts.
Not very original, El Huevón, but clever in a middle school sort of way.
If you’re going to talk shit, be a grown up about it and either do it to my face or using your real identity. Stop hiding behind Emvergeoning’s lax posting rules.
Fucking coward.
Wow! Is this what happens when the good guy WINS?
Anyway, I understand Steve’s liberal guilt of not wanting to patronize the minorities. (Just a friendly tweak, Steve.)
I would argue simply that, for this particular minority, there is a special pride in knowing that a person of color made it to the…um…White House. And when you are proud, you want to show it off! (Flags. T shirts. Shouts. Whatever.) You are letting the world know. Maybe even to a coupla arty white kids. What’s the problem there?
When all of Africa seemingly got up to celebrate that one of its sons (poetically) made it to the presidency of the great United States and camera crews were there to capture the outpouring of pride and celebration, was THAT patronizing? I don’t think so…
In some alternate dimension, that was Henry Cisneros that won the presidency. Would it offend you if a coupla well meaning arty white kids (sorry J & B) wanted to be around you or your family?
you are all terrorists.
except beto.
Well, Beto, first, are you back yet? Second, God forbid that loser Cisneros should ever hold any sort of office again. Third, I wouldn’t care if a couple of arty white kids wanted to share the moment if a *viable* Latino/a candidate were to win the White House (at the current rate, it’ll be another 300 years before we see that happening), but I would care if public opinion had him/her being labeled and branded as a Latino President. He/She would not be that.
It’s a historic event, for sure, and it needs to be documented, but not overly so. We only need to look at the dude’s face to know he’s black.
In any case, I’m happy to see the press starting to concentrate on his administration now rather than his color.