Saturday, July 12, 2008
Good point
This article is so right-on that I don't want to waste any time restating it. Just recommend reading it. His thoughts are directed to blacks who are perhaps thrown off balance by Obama's possible/probable power position. The discomfort, he says, is because "the first stirrings of a new consensus . . . [place] more emphasis on a public discussion of personal responsibility than on protest" and protest is what is more accustomed and familiar. In other words, what "makes us uncomfortable and disoriented [is] the prospect that one of us might soon be in charge of trying to fix this mess instead of simply complaining about it. " But read the whole piece. Definitely worth thinking about.
Labels: 2008 election, reflections
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