More Obama buttons, etc.

I stopped into the one store in my neighborhood where Sister Rose sells Obama buttons to get a new one -- it's a picture of Obama beside a picture of Martin Luther King, Jr., with the words "STAY BLACK"; when I got it, Sister Rose gave me five and was like, "Yeah, mon!" -- and ended up getting talked into a button that has a picture of Obama besides the words "2008" and "DO FOR SELF", which is a special design that Sister Rose commissioned since she felt that too many people want Obama to do everything for them without wanting to make any efforts for themselves.

She also said her church got 60 tickets to the inauguration and she could go, but it's too much hassle and she's probably going to give up her ticket so a young person can go, which the pastor is encouraging people to do, since it will inspire them.

When I came in, too, an older middle-aged black woman who lives a couple blocks from Obama was talking with Sister Rose, and we all started talking about how the Obamas were moving out. Sister Rose said that a moving van had been there yesterday, and that some church has been going to his house a few times a day to pray outside to get him through till inauguration day, and a few anti-war protestors have been showing up on occasion too, though not as often. We all agreed that the Obamas wouldn't be back too often, and in any case they had taken a lot of their neighborhood friends with them. When I said I felt sorry for the kids being uprooted, the one neighborhood woman was like, "Don't worry about that, kids are resilient and adjust quickly," and then was like, "And besides the person to be sorry for is Michelle, it's hard to find new girlfriends."