I guess I would like to linger, just for a bit more, on the historical nature of the week. All of our previous black presidents have been fictional; this one is not just symbolic like them but an actual day-to-day director of a crumbling state. I fear the ideals and hopes we've attached to him will be lost in that business of daily politicking, in all the news managing, in all that administrating.
Well that doesn't go with the song at all. I hope that the fact of a black president makes for far fewer future racists, but as for today, those feelings have only been pushed under the surface. I'm sorry to sully such a beautiful song with all this little pessimism, but there it is.
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