Africa’s First Family: Obama Wins New York World Series
I don’t feel any more welcome weaving between them in the dawn of the age of Obama than I did last month. After all, I am still a gentrifier, a yuppie whose very presence threatens to perpetuate the steady influx of young whites to the area and to continue to drive up real estate prices and rents. But I do feel as though the gap between us has narrowed. For all they know I could have been one of the millions of white Americans who manned phone banks or fanned out across polling stations, who pulled the lever or pushed the button that helped put Barack Obama where he is today.
For if the simple act of electing a man can only go so far in healing the wounds of slavery and segregation, it does at least prove one thing. That in the space of a little under a couple of years, America has undergone a momentous change.
Image: Adrian Kinloch
Posted: 16th, November 2008 | In: Key Posts Comments (2) | TrackBack | Permalink
