NYC Trip 2

Today started with a visit to FOX news. The tour started late because it was said that a big meeting was called and one of our hosts who had to report to Rupert Murdoch apparently had to meet with him. So that tour started late.

We had a short tour, and after that, we were led to a conference room with "FOX News" goodie bags sitting on the table. The bags held a red notebook that said "Fox News" on the cover. The notebook came with a pen attached. There was also a Fox Radio pencil.

That visit was nice, and I had the chance to meet some of the personalities for the second time.

AFter that visit, I had lunch with another student. We didn't even sit down and lounge and take our time, we age and made a mad dash for a cab... but were five minutes late to our next appointment... and they didn't let us upstairs. So we decided to make our way to the next appointment, a couple of hours in advance.

Instead of taking a cab we decided to be adventurous and hop on the subway. The student I was following kinda knows the city. She asked this 82-year-old man where to find the subway that would take us to our destination. He told us, we followed him and ended up talking to him at least 30 minutes... We learned about his life, his struggle with civil rights and discrimination... all of this on the way to the subway... We also chatted waiting for the subway, and in the subway train... He missed his stop in order to show us where to go... And we talked some more after we got off the subway around the Macy's area on... 33rd st.

After talking to that gentleman, not five minutes passed before we were engaged in another conversation. This gentleman was younger, and started talking about Barack Obama... he said complimentary things... then started saying that Barack Obama doesn't have an African-American bloodline and how we need someone in the White House with that bloodline... (wait, hold up... wasn't this the same brother praising Obama just two minutes before?) In the process we found out that he never voted. WHAT THE HE#$? So we both lit into him. My fellow student told him that complaining about leadership without casting a vote is bullsh#$. I told him the thing that keeps me voting are those images of my ancestors being toppled over by firehoses and chased by fierce dogs because they wanted equality. That keeps me voting. How dare I not vote? He appeared to see our point, but only he will know if and when he hits the polls.

Don't talk about what you want if you aren't participating in the process to create what you want.