{"id":5016,"date":"2008-02-08T17:29:38","date_gmt":"2008-02-08T22:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=5016"},"modified":"2008-02-08T14:52:03","modified_gmt":"2008-02-08T19:52:03","slug":"conversations_w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/08\/conversations_w\/","title":{"rendered":"Political parents are adorable"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before SuperFaTuesday fades from our collective minds, I wanted to share a few different conversations that people have had with their parents<\/a> about who to support.<\/p>\n\n

Tamasha’s mother played true to her demographic and supported Hillary as did her “new-grandmother aunt”. I loved the conversation between Tamasha and her Aatya:<\/p>\n\n

Aatya: Sweetie, can I make one last plea for you to vote for Hillary?
Tamasha: Um, it’s not really going to work, but tell me why you’re voting for her.
Aatya: Women have to vote for her.
T: Yeah, see, that’s not enough for me. Her being a woman, I mean.
Aatya: Women my age have to vote for her.
T: Huh?
Aatya: You haven’t had to face the glass ceilings that I have, working with men who have meetings in the men’s room and come back out zipping up their pants making proclamations.
T: Fair enough. But Obama has more things going for him that appeal to me, and he has specific ideas and beliefs that more precisely match up with mine.
Aatya: Just wait.Just wait until you have to go into the bathroom with these men while they pee and make decisions.<\/span><\/font> [Link<\/a>]<\/blockquote>\n\n

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p>My mother feels similarly, although she put it in less colorful language. She simply said that it was time for a woman, and that she was tired of women hitting a glass ceiling, and being called shrill when they’re just being as aggressive as their male counterparts. She liked Obama plenty, but figured Obama could run in 4 or 8 years once he had a little more experience. \n<\/p>\n\n

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p>Taz’s father, on the other hand, was an activist for Obama:<\/p>\n\n

My dad came home from work at 8:30pm, and immediately we put him on the phones. “Call all your friends!” I implored.

He proceeded to call through his phone book of members of the Bangladeshi community. I would hear him as he sat in the living room making his calls. “Khalka vote dibeh?” Are you going to vote tomorrow? He’d ask his friends. “My daughter is making calls for Obama -“

“No, Abbu!” I whispered loudly. “YOU are making calls for Obama!”

“Oh\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6I am making calls for Obama,” he said into the phone. “I made them all day, and I’m voting for him tomorrow. I want you to vote for him too.”<\/span><\/font> By 10pm, my family had made over 200 get out the vote calls on behalf of Barack Obama that day. [Link<\/a>]<\/blockquote>\n\n

In the end, I figure the Obama Grandmother<\/a> was an outlier and most SouthAsians voted like most other Asians<\/a>, that is, in support of Hillary. Still, sometimes it’s nice to drill down and put a face and a story to the data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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