the rules r
all questions allowed
no reporters
college students only

she is almost 30
a grown woman

-did ur moms credibility
suffer in the wake of the monica scandal-

thats none of ur business she replied

if only her dad had used this line
when first asked about
his extra marital exploits
a sad legacy

sex always makes headlines
men buy it
this shocks some people
not me

america is a racist country
a given

2 parallel lines
cut by a transversal
alternate interior angles formed
r congruent

to solve the problem
we must agree on the givens

peace peeps

Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm (November 30, 1924 – January 1, 2005) was an American politician, educator and author. She was a Congresswoman, representing New York's 12th District for seven terms from 1968 to 1983. In 1968, she became the first African American woman elected to Congress. On January 23, 1972, she became the first major party African American candidate for President of the United States. She won 152 delegates.

• I was the first American citizen to be elected to Congress in spite of the double drawbacks of being female and having skin darkened by melanin. When you put it that way, it sounds like a foolish reason for fame. In a just and free society it would be foolish.
That I am a national figure because I was the first person in 192 years to be at once a congressman, black and a woman proves, I think, that our society is not yet either just or free.

• I want history to remember me not just as the first black woman to be elected to Congress, not as the first black woman to have made a bid for the presidency of the United States, but as a black woman who lived in the 20th century and dared to be herself.

• Of my two "handicaps" being female put more obstacles in my path than being black.

• I've always met more discrimination being a woman than being black.

• My God, what do we want? What does any human being want? Take away an accident of pigmentation of a thin layer of our outer skin and there is no difference between me and anyone else. All we want is for that trivial difference to make no difference.

• Racism is so universal in this country, so widespread and deepseated, that it is invisible because it is so normal.

• We Americans have a chance to become someday a nation in which all racial stocks and classes can exist in their own selfhoods, but meet on a basis of respect and equality and live together, socially, economically, and politically.

• In the end antiblack, antifemale, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing - antihumanism.

one half hour
til the book report begins
this can b a positive experience
for myself and my son
i say over and over
in wishful preparation

h

i met an indian boy
at barnes and nobel
of course of course
his name was christian
a tiny touch of downs
an angel

i resist going to the mall
but whenever i do
it fills me
someone somehow

he is seven - looks 5
slight - he rocks slightly
left 2 right
soothing himself
smiling

i am christian this is my daddy
he told me - locking eyes
hello christian my name is rosie i am a mommy
hello rosie this train is thomas

(that tank engine table in the childrens section
a brilliant idea truly)

we chatted
i introduced chelsea and blake
who kept appearing holding a book
waiting for a yes or no
giving it to me happily
or grunting away to find another

as i left his dad stood up
r u from the tv - he asked with tender eyes
yes i said
he nodded

a long blink

spingle
god says hey
keep going

may we all release the desire to receive
for oneself alone

peace

SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) -- Rosie O'Donnell married her longtime girlfriend Thursday, taking what she called a proud stand for gay civil rights in the city where more than 3,300 other same-sex couples have tied the knot since February 12.
"I want to thank the city of San Francisco for this amazing stance the mayor has taken for all the people here, not just us but all the thousands and thousands of loving, law-abiding couples," the former talk show host, holding a large bouquet of purple and yellow flowers, said after she and Kelli Carpenter emerged from their brief ceremony inside Mayor Gavin Newsom's office.
Earlier Thursday, O'Donnell announced her wedding plans on ABC's "Good Morning America," just two days after President Bush called for a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.
She said the president's call is what inspired her to come to San Francisco, where city officials continue to perform same-sex weddings even as state courts are considering the legality of those marriages.
"I think the actions of the president are, in my opinion, the most vile and hateful words ever spoken by a sitting president," O'Donnell, who lives in the New York City region, said on the program. "I am stunned and I'm horrified.
"I find this proposed amendment very, very, very, very shocking. And immoral. And, you know, if civil disobedience is the way to go about change, then I think a lot of people will be going to San Francisco. And I hope they put more people on the steps to marry as many people as show up. And I hope everyone shows up."