Summer \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Moon of the First Harvests<\/p>\n
What a wonder. \u00a0A black president speaking as a black man about the lived experience of young black men. \u00a0Trayvon Martin, he said, could have been him 35 years ago. \u00a0A young black man in hoodie, suspected of, what? \u00a0WWB? \u00a0Walking while black. \u00a0Maybe about to do, something. \u00a0And something, wrong. \u00a0Bad. \u00a0Hearing clicks on car door locks as you walk by. \u00a0Being followed in stores. \u00a0Indelible and seemingly inevitable.<\/p>\n
Yet, of course, he is not Trayvon. \u00a0No, he is the president of the most powerful nation the world has ever known. \u00a0Maybe the most powerful it will ever know. \u00a0And even he, with all that power at his disposal, literally at his command, can imagine himself into the life of a young man seen, paradoxically, as both powerless and invisible and all too visible and dangerous.<\/p>\n
Racism and its even more evil progenitor, slavery, stand out as the original sin, the stain on this city on a hill, this beacon of freedom and hope. \u00a0We white folk have done this and that, but not too much and now the time of our dominance is passing. \u00a0This nation will become a colorful quilt with white as one shade among many rather than the shade against which all others stand inferior. \u00a0May that day come soon.<\/p>\n
There are many things I feel privileged to have witnessed. \u00a0 The civil rights movement. The anti-war movement. \u00a0Feminism and the rise of women. A world in which the whole planet must be taken into account when making decisions. \u00a0A man walking on the moon. Routine space flight. The discovery of extraterrestrial planets. \u00a0The discovery of DNA. \u00a0The global recognition that the people can challenge their government. \u00a0And win. \u00a0So many things. \u00a0These and more.<\/p>\n
But, this one, a black president speaking about the lived experience of being a young black man. \u00a0This one is a miracle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Summer \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Moon of the First Harvests What a wonder. \u00a0A black president speaking as a black man about the lived experience of young black men. \u00a0Trayvon … Continue reading This One Is A Miracle<\/span>