I don't normally follow personality politics. I am more interested in policy than presentation. So I have avoided getting caught up in the Obama mania over the past year. But yesterday's Presidential inaugral ceremony was truly moving - particularly when the media coverage shifted to the South and showed old footage of young men and women civil rights campaigners from the 50s and 60s and interviewed the same people with tears in their eyes. Fifty years ago in the South the KKK was rampant and black people could not eat in the same restuarants, use the same washrooms, had third rate and segregated schooling and for a black person to attending university was beyond a dream. Today there is a (half) black president - with immediate African ancestry. How the world has moved.
The question most pundits are asking is whether he is up to the job - and of course it's a massive job. But before I fell asleep last night I had one worrying thought.
America has a tragic history of seeing its brightest and most progressive social reformers (of whatever colour) shot down in their prime. Let us pray that history will not repeat itself.
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The only thing I'm certain of is that he can do no worse!
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