By Dejarelle Gaines
Politics and religion were two things that my mother, a veteran of over 22 years in the U.S. army, was never openly vocal about. She would give hints to her political leanings in everyday situations such as a phone conversation with my extremely radical liberal uncle or her almost religious recording of Jon Stewart’s “The Daily Show,” but otherwise these topics weren’t discussed. It wasn’t until my senior year of high school when I was taking AP Government that I thought to ask my mom what her political views were.
