A Second Thought for Silver Linings
Nov 9th, 2008 |
Well, I am (perhaps naively) hoping that I was wrong in my previous post. Having now seen the way so many African-Americans are responding to Obama’s victory Tuesday, my hope is that, at the very least, his election really does mark a big turnaround in race-relations in this country. It is hard for either the racial majority or minority to maintain the same spirit of suspicion and opposition with a minority suddenly in the White House. I can’t count how many African-Americans they’ve showed on television saying things along the lines of “Now I feel for the first time like anything is possible in this country,” etc. Well, if that spirit holds up, and if there isn’t some backlash uprising of a new KKK or something from disgruntled whites (not. likely.), then this at least could be a very, very good thing. I am, in all sincerity, happy for those who are feeling so plugged in and hopeful about our nation’s future for the first time because of Tuesday’s events.
I hope that Obama is close to as good as his supporters think he is going to be, and that he is nowhere nearly as bad for the country as his critics (myself included) worry he is going to be.
