Dare to Hope the World Can Be Different

Who would have thought we'd be wondering who's won the New Hasmpshire Democratic Primay: a black man or a white woman? Things have changed! I'm beginning to permit a seed of hope sprout: maybe the the citizenry don't have their heads buried in the sand.

Read this interesting commentary in this Sunday's NY Times:
"Whether the results of the Iowa caucuses on Thursday will be seen by future generations as a threshold moment of change or a footnote to a story yet unwritten is anyone’s guess, of course. The victories by Barack Obama, the Democratic senator from Illinois, and former Gov. Mike Huckabee of Arkansas, a Republican not in the traditional mold, are tiny steps on a long road that may not lead to the White House for either man.

But there’s no doubt that for one night, in one state, Americans dramatically changed the subject. Race didn’t matter — even though Mr. Obama was an African-American running in a nearly all-white state — but talk of unity and common ground did, as Mr. Obama galvanized his supporters by promising to toss historical and political division aside."

See more at: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/weekinreview/06johnson.html?scp=1&sq=negro+

Do you think we can turn the political scene around?