More about 40 June 7, 2008
It’s not my own age so much that’s obsessing me, but the historical era. MLK was shot the year I was born. And not long after, Nixon was elected. 40 years: it doesn’t seem a stretch to say, as a nation, we’ve been wandering. The flood, the desert, the desolate pit — choose your biblical metaphor. And now here’s a leader in Barak Obama, a man whose story is the is the story of the hero’s journey, a black man with a Muslim name. Is it too much to dream anything is possible?
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