Letters to the Editor
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Thanks for the drumbeat , GK
Obama has many imposing obstacles to overcome if he has any hope of winning the Democratic Primary, and none seems more forbidding than the wall put up by those who claim his victory would only ensure another Republican presidency. Their cynical attitude is that Americans simply will not elect a Black man, since our racism runs way too deep. How sad, the way we're willing to smother a baby in its crib, ostensibly with the justification that the world awaiting is a mean and savage place.
To invoke another analogy, those very cynics-- those whose hopelessness seems to add substance to racism, though they themselves may not be racist-- also remind me of the allegory about the old elephant, tethered to a sapling by a tenuous rope. Never does he dare to stray beyond the tiny perimeter that the rope allows, never does he test the strength of the sapling. He learned, as a calf, the futility of trying.
Perhaps we should dare to hope. Let writers like GK provide the inspiration, the now murmurring drum beat (whether to a different drummer, or not) that will reach a crescendo as election time draws a bit closer. Beyond primitive faith, Obama, himself, will provide the substance!
Mark W