Obama fever has ignited the black branch of my family [View All]

[Mira]

My white family tree has for decades had a large and multi-intersected branch of a black family.
They are collectively on fire about the possibility of Barrack Obama as President.

There are daily calls and rundowns of the numbers of delegates along with ruminating and speculating and the paying of very close attention.

They have never before been particularly politically involved or interested, and have been tolerant of me and the marching I did over what has been happening in Washington in the last 7 years, dismissing it as something we can do nothing about.

Just watching this excitement gives me a crystal clear picture of what is happening in this country with the under privileged, the people who have abandoned hope, and those who have given up thinking they will ever be at the colletive table as equals.

Which of course translates to the powerless all around us.
It is not just a matter of color.