tonight Barack Obama will accept the Democratic nomination for president. he is about the become the first black official major party candidate. this comes 45 years to the day of the million man march and Dr King's famous "I have a dream" speech. i cant help but think that this is not a coincidence. but im okay with that. i think its good to look back at what Dr King and all the activists have achieved to make it possible for a black (closet Muslim) man to achieve.
ive grown up in a different time. i never knew the hatred of racism. ive know prejudices and biases, but never the hate that ive heard of. im glad for that. and im glad that in the space of half a century we have come so far. we have come from the hate endured in the 50's with forced integration and all the violence that resulted. from having my own grandfather disown his own daughter, my sweet old aunt, for dating then marrying a black man, to me having a thing for a black girl and not having to worry about anything more than a couple startled faces. i hope to see a time when my kids can date anyone of any color and not even have the thought cross their minds as to how their friends and family might react. i guess i have a dream too. that we can all be more like Stephen Colbert, and not see color.
yes we've come quite far, and in this day of terrorism, economic woes, climate change, and the energy crisis, its nice to think about something that we as a nation have finally gotten right. Dr Kings had a dream that we might judge a man by the content of his character rather than the color of his skin. as a society, i think we are past the tipping point. its a big step in the right direction.
the world will be a better place if we all could just take a page from Red Green's playbook. "keep you stick on the ice. I'm pulling for you, were all in this together."
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