MB Civic

By Eugene Robinson | Tuesday, December 11, 2007 | The Washington Post

“…Is it foolish to think that a nation stained by centuries of slavery and racism is prepared to elect a black president? Rarely phrased so bluntly, that’s the central question posed by Barack Obama’s candidacy — especially for many African American voters, whose doubts are informed by having seen many an oasis turn out to be a mirage.

Oprah Winfrey, as is her wont, cut to the heart of the matter. Campaigning on Obama’s behalf this weekend, she echoed the words of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in offering permission to believe.

‘Dr. King dreamed the dream,’ Winfrey told a predominantly black crowd of 29,000 in Columbia, S.C. ‘But we don’t have to just dream the dream anymore. We get to vote that dream into reality.’….BS

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/10/AR2007121001563_pf.html