"I didn't think I'd ever see what I'm looking at now."

[babylonsister]

http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/uncucumbered/photo_president_obama_greets_109_year_old_emma_primas

Photo: President Obama Greets 109-Year-Old Emma Primas With A Kiss

"I didn't think I'd ever see what I'm looking at now." - Emma Primas on meeting President Obama


Being 109-years-old has its perks, and yesterday Texas native Emma Primas enjoyed a big one: a kiss from President Obama before the Easter prayer breakfast held in East Room of the White House.

"I didn't think I'd ever see what I'm looking at now," she said.

During election season last November, Mrs. Primas said she worried about the haters who oppose President Obama, observing:

"Even though they are giving him a hard time he is sticking in there." Then she urged people to rally around the beleaguered president, scolding, "People should get out and vote. It makes a difference. If it didn’t, they wouldn’t be trying to do everything to stop you from voting. So it just makes sense to vote. Just don't sit there."

According to the Houston Sun, voting has always been an important issue to Mrs. Primas, who told reporters:

"Soon as blacks were allowed to vote, I voted in California. You just had to be 18 there and nothing else. So when I knew I was moving back to Houston, I bought my poll taxes so I could vote in Houston."

But Mrs. Primas admits she never thought she'd see the day the U.S. elected a black president. Yesterday, that black president she dared not dream of greeted her with a kiss.

Here's White House photographer Pete Souza's official photo of the meeting:

[guillaumeb]

1. what a great photo

There is progress. Too slow and too little sometimes, but there is progress.

[calimary]

18. Totally!

Love her! Love him! Love them both especially in this photo.

LISTEN TO THIS WISE WOMAN WHEN SHE TELLS YOU TO GO VOTE - AND NEVER FAIL!

[guillaumeb]

21. and a majority do not vote.

No matter the excuse, and there are many offered here and elsewhere, voting is speech. To complain about the choices while refusing to participate is nonsense.

How many "I will not vote for.........whoever" posts have there been here? To make a statement that, for example, I will not vote for HRC because she is not my particular ideal candidate always makes the perfect the enemy of the good. This is not an argument for an unquestioning vote, but an argument that even if your particular ideal candidate is not the nominee, vote anyway for the best available candidate.

And if your response is that progressives and/or liberals have no voice in the Democratic Party, get involved in the Party and work for change rather than sitting back and complaining. I have been a union activist for 40 years, and have been involved in a social justice group in the Chicago area for 11 years. We organize, we educate, we march, we debate. No, we do not always win the issue, but we are trying. If everyone who complains about politics actually got involved the political landscape would change.

And yes, the 1% have the money, but they only get one vote each. There are more of us.

[calimary]

23. THIS is the cream filling in the cookie:

"And yes, the 1% have the money, but they only get one vote each. There are more of us."

Which is why voting is urgent. Every time there's an election! REMEMBER THIS PART in particular: "And yes, the 1% have the money, but they only get one vote each..." I would add - "...for the time being. Until they pull enough strings or exert enough pressure to change that, too." That last part can ONLY happen if our side stays home on Election Day. For WHATEVER reason.

[sheshe2]

2. Beautiful!

[wendylaroux]

3. Awwww so sweet!!:)

My Mom was so thrilled to be alive long enough to see this also.
Beautiful.

[Marie Marie]

4. Bless her - may she live many more years.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

5. :)

❤

[appalachiablue]

6. Beautiful and moving! Bravo.

[KMOD]

7. so very sweet.

[a kennedy]

8. and how long again do we get a man or woman of color into the White House???

I love seeing all this. or all the other pictures of African Americans seeing or touching this man. https://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse/sets/72157632418300447/ and these pictures are from 2012.

[Electric Monk]

10. Probably sooner than we'll see an atheist or LGBT, I'll bet. nt

[babylonsister]

11. No, LGBT is accepted by everyone but fundies. We need to lose them! nt

[freshwest]

13. Wow, thanks for the link. Beautiful. n/t

[Politicalboi]

26. Paging Dr. Ben Carson!!!!!

[Overseas]

9. K&R.

[PatrickforO]

12. I can remember the night in November 2008 when Obama was first elected, and

those hundreds of thousands of people gathered - some were crying and all knew they were part of something very special.

Except the Republicans - they met in a steak bar the night of his inauguration and agreed to oppose EVERYTHING Obama tried to do.

I still think that was treasonous because they were putting their party above their nation. In fact, we see a long record of that - the government shut down and near-default, where they were willing to let us all go down the drain just to 'get' Obama. And then the 47 Senators (including mine, the perfidious Cory Gardner) who signed the Treason Letter to Iran.

That lady's right - we've ALL got to vote every single time, and we all have to take the time and make the effort to learn about what's going on so we can vote intelligently. We have to run these charlatans out of DC (and our state legislatures, school boards and local governments) in 2016.

[freshwest]

14. You nailed it. This is the time. I was talking to the hispanic branch of my family in Texas.

Their interpretation was that the GOP was going to make it so hard for people we'd be begging them for every single thing. The solution - VOTE!

[yallerdawg]

15. For all you people who say voting doesn't matter?

Thank you for being a tool of the Republican Party.

"That's what she said!"

[erronis]

22. + I'll remember that next time I should vote and don't feel like it.

Don't be a tool of the Republicans!
Thanks.

[yallerdawg]

28. But you feel like commenting.

That's a start!

[Skittles]

16. she is a doll

[lame54]

17. class act

[FSogol]

19. Hey Everyone: "People should get out and vote. It makes a difference. If it didn’t, they wouldn’t

be trying to do everything to stop you from voting. So it just makes sense to vote. Just don't sit there."

Well said Mrs. Emma Primas.

[tabasco]

20. Right now, Barack Obama is the only reason

I have any hope at all for this country.

[whathehell]

24. Beautiful. n/t

[mcar]

25. Beautiful

Just beautiful.

Who could argue with her message - vote!

[allan01]

27. im melting

[Liberal_in_LA]

29. she is cute