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[grantcart]

Senator Obama's election will serve as a template or a paradigm for inner city people.

I understood that you were simple making the point that it would be a symbolic point and not a paradigm or a template.


The reality is that people are oriented by symbols. Changing core symbols is not just 'symbolic' but represents a new reality.

On January 21st if the world wakes up to an African American family having slept in the White House and now in control of the most powerful job in the world the simple symbolic nature of that act will in fact create a new paradigm.


It will have an impact on Wall Street, Harlem and the projects. It will be intersting to see if it also has an impact on the Gaza strip and elsewhere.

It's going to be fun to watch - thanks for your post.