We can very easily get caught up in the shouting and bluster of a political season, especially when it’s as partisan and important as this. The tension couldn’t be thicker, and it gets hard to step back from the edge when everyone is marching full tilt.
I came across this picture tonight, and it has re-framed everything for me. It has reminded me that behind all the loud talk, accusations and rhetoric that the idea that we are actually and truly going to elect a black man president of the United States of America…well it’s overwhelmingly historic and I am just happy to be alive and part of the scene. This is what our country is all about and should forever be:
These two boys waited as a long line of adults greeted Senator Obama before a rally on Martin Luther King Day in Columbia, S.C. They never took their eyes off of him. Their grandmother told me, “Our young men have waited a long time to have someone to look up to, to make them believe Dr. King’s words can be true for them.” Jan. 21, 2008.
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