Great Article in Time this week: a Black man's perspective on an Obama win/loss.

[Bicoastal]

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1848813,00.html

"For Blacks, a Quiet Question: What if Obama Loses?" by Ta-Nehisi Coates

EXCERPT:

"Consider this fact: the most famous black man in America isn't dribbling a ball or clutching a microphone. He has no prison record. He has not built a career on four-letter words. So much of our blues boils down to CNN: you go home, you cut on the TV, and always you're reduced to skyrocketing murder rates, singers on trial for defiling children and overvalued athletes making it rain. All black news is bad news, and lately we've just been very tired.

But for more than a year now, we have been treated to a p.r. campaign for our side of the tracks. There is what the world sees in Obama, and then there is what we see. Words like hope, change and progress might seem like naive campaign sloganeering in a dark age. But think of the way those words ring for a people whose forebears marched into billy clubs and dogs, whose ancestors fled north by starlight, feeling the moss on the backs of trees. The sight of the Obama family onstage that first night in Denver was similarly mind-blowing, an image of black families that television so rarely provides. With its quiet class and agility--the beaming beautiful wife, the waving kids--this campaign has confirmed us, assured us that we are more than just a problem."

[kimmylavin]

1. Wow.

Great article.
And good excerpt - read it three times now, and can't stop crying.

[wildflower]

2. Very evocative imagery in this article. Recommended. n/t