Let’s forget “the issues” for a brief moment and reflect on something that is not debatable: If Barack Obama is elected President, we will all have the privilege of participating in one of the defining moments of modern history.
On this occasion let us remember those who cannnot be here to enjoy this moment – the departed who only could have dreamed that one day a man of part-African heritage would have such an opportunity.
(And let us be a be a little bit extra mindful of the living as well – those people for whom you sense that this is not just another election.)
Who will you be thinking of when you go into the voting booth? Whose name will you whisper when you say “This one is for you…” A civil rights leader? A beloved relative? An anonymous stranger? Perhaps even someone not yet old enough to understand prejudice?
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