2 milestones at once
Nov. 4th, 2008 11:30 pmA friend: So barring any changes due to recounts, lawsuits, etc., our next President is going to be a black man. I wonder what Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks would say about that.
Me: So barring any changes due to recounts, lawsuits, etc., our next President is going to be a person who had a mother of one "race" and a father of another. I wonder what Mildred Loving would say about that.
Me: So barring any changes due to recounts, lawsuits, etc., our next President is going to be a person who had a mother of one "race" and a father of another. I wonder what Mildred Loving would say about that.
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Date: 2008-11-05 04:36 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2008-11-05 11:51 am (UTC)"It was worth it."
I was born in the era of race riots, and now I've helped elect a black man President.