Last night, Times Square was spontaneously packed with people hugging and weeping, in numbers rivaling any New Year’s celebration. Revelers danced in front of the soon-to-be vacated White House. In the Ebenezer Baptist Church of Atlanta, Dr. King’s children cheered and I know the Ancestors laughed and wept. And at Grant Field, Chicago, they played this video.
Hope prevails. Love trumps fear. A new dawn begins. Blessed be.
Maybe by the time Obama runs for re-election I will stop crying these tears of awe, of amazing unity.
We have come full circle and the seeds of the 60’s have borne sweet fruit.