Andrew Young Casts Ballot of His Dreams for Obama

[Faygo Kid]

ATLANTA (AP) -- Standing in line to cast his ballot for Barack Obama, Andrew Young was told to wait outside until he was called. And for a moment, he froze.

Years ago, in the Jim Crow South, Young spent his youth teaching blacks how to read and write so they could pass frivolous literacy tests meant to keep them from voting. The innocent instructions of an elections clerk on Thursday set off a flashback.

''It almost felt like that was Selma again,'' and his days alongside the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. on the front lines of the struggle for voting and civil rights for black Americans, Young said.

''When you'd go to register in Selma, they'd tell you that you couldn't come into the courthouse, to stand in line,'' he said. ''And they'd just let you stand outside all day long.''

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/washington/AP-Vote-of-A-Lifetime.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

[rurallib]

1. Ok the memories of the bad old days and one of the heroes that

helped bring it to an end just brought a big wet tear to my eyes. Thank you Andrew Young. And a belated thank you to John Lewis for speaking the truth last week. You guys are real heroes!