Tuesday, June 3, 2008
History is made
We should pause a moment to recognize and honor the enormous thing that has occurred today:

a black man is an elected nominee for the office of president of the United States of America

Only a few short decades ago, black people could not attend college with white people in many states of this country. Only a few short decades ago, powerful hoses were turned on black children as they walked to school. Only a few short decades ago, appallingly, some people made outdoor sport of chasing and shooting black people set to running through the woods like animals.

Now, in the spring of 2008, the large numbers of votes cast for Obama in every state of the union makes it evident that monumental change has occurred and, whatever you think of the merits of the person himself, it is an important and superb moment for humanity.

Sadly, many people perished in the struggle for human equality. It would be good if they all somehow know what has happened.

An ironic postscript is the fact that today is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Jefferson F. Davis, President of the Confederate States of America.

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Blogger ligneus — at 10:52 PM, June 04, 2008:
Trouble is that too many people are going to vote for him for that very reason regardless of his lack of merit as a serious candidate. Too bad that the first black [half black to be precise and not even American black parentage] candidate should be such a nonentity, worse, an unpatriotic idiot of a nonentity.
 

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Blogger jau — at 9:55 AM, June 05, 2008:
Just to play devil's advocate here, one would not say "half white and not even American white parentage" about someone with a hispanic parent even though many if not most of us (you included, by the way) have multi-national or multi-racial parents. These are all irrelevant points, ideally, but people keep focusing there instead of on policy issues. Very distressing.
 

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