Well, I'm not going to tell Jesse Jackson he shouldn't be joyously weeping because he's seeing the hard and fast progress we've made during his lifetime.
Nor do I think we ought to pretend like race doesn't still matter. Of course it shouldn't matter, but it still does matter, and I much prefer that we acknowledge that rather than pretend this isn't an important milestone along a road that stretches long and hard before us.
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Date: 2009-01-22 02:35 am (UTC)Nor do I think we ought to pretend like race doesn't still matter. Of course it shouldn't matter, but it still does matter, and I much prefer that we acknowledge that rather than pretend this isn't an important milestone along a road that stretches long and hard before us.