‘It’s OK to be an American now’
By Derrick Z. Jackson | Sunday, November 23, 2008 | The Boston Globe
“…In calling President-elect Barack Obama a ‘house Negro,’ Al Qaeda missed the memo from Grant Park. Before Obama’s victory speech in Chicago, the crowd of 125,000 people said the Pledge of Allegiance. In my 53 years I have never heard such a multicultural throng recite the pledge with such determined enunciation, expelling it from the heart in a treble soaring to the skies and a bass drumming through the soil to vibrate my feet. The treble and bass met in my spine, where ‘liberty and justice for all’ evoked neither clank of chains nor cackle of cruelty, but a warm tickle of Jeffersonian slave-owning irony: Justice cannot sleep forever….”…BS
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