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Re: [xmca] A magic moment
Indeed - the whole world is/was watching
Nelson Mandela referred to him as: new hope for the world
Mary
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>>> Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net> 2009/01/20 12:07 PM >>>
Likewise in Australia. There is an Obama Party being held in
our street as I write and the TV covergae goes all night
tonight. Everyone seems to have projected their own hopes
and aspirations on to this guy, worldwide.
Andy
Beatrice Ligorio wrote:
> Mike I just want to add that this event was a great emotion for Europe too.
> We are all watching America as a new hope for global change. So much
> expectations are coming from this new American president and his new way
> of leading a powerful country, so influencial on the rest of the world.
> The wave got till the old continent :-)
>
> Bea
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Duvall, Emily" <emily@uidaho.edu>
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>
> Thank you Mike.
> Good luck to us all.
> ~em
>
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>
> Dear Xmca-ers--
>
> Tonight is a magic moment. In the Los Angeles Times this morning there
> was
> an
> editorial "cartoon" that had a picture of the Calendar with Martin
> Luther
> King, on
> January 19th, pointing to the future-- of January 20th, when, Humanity
> willing, when
> an African-American will become president of the United States.
>
> I feel unbelievably luck to be alive, present, and, in my small
> peripheral
> way, a participant
> in such an event. The site of Pete Seeger and Bruce Springsteen singing
> Arlo
> Guthrie's hymn
> to the promise of this troubled country with its checkered history in
> front
> of Lincoln's statue
> yesterday was a sight I NEVER expected to live to see. When I was a
> child,
> my family's anti-
> racism and belief in social justice produced some very hard times. When
> I
> went to graduate
> school in Indiana and picketed Woolworth's literally dogged by the
> police,
> my New York liberal
> friends thought it was so obvious and unnecessary they couldn't be
> bothered.
> When I returned
> from the USSR in 1963 and did not know enough to turn south from New
> York to
> be present in
> Washington for MLK's speech at the Lincoln memorial, but had to hear it
> while driving west on the
> Pennsylvania turnpike, we felt the lost opportunity sorely.
>
> All events, long past.
>
> LCHC holds this truth to be self evident: All persons are created equal.
> We
> are rendered unequal
> by the environment into which we are born, an environment that, in the
> general ideological-theoretical
> assumptions of xmca, is not forced upon human beings locked into an iron
> cage, but is, with proper
> respect and humility, constructed and (may our grand children hope)
> preserved by the actions we take
> now. today. tomorrow. and the days following.
>
> Gotta turn off the TV. The trivia level is almost more than I can bear.
> Better to turn to friends coming to
> celebrate and pray for the future, and to listen to Pete Seeger leading
> the
> nation in us thought that,
> just maybe, we can overcome.
>
> Bon nuit
> bueno noche
> spokoini nochi
> and lots of good luck. We all need it.
> mike
>
> (the 50's guy)
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