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phreddd ([personal profile] phreddd) wrote2008-11-05 07:08 am
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How wide is the gap from four black girls getting blown to bits at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church to two black girls spending a part of their childhood at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW?

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About 45 years wide.

[identity profile] kevynjacobs.livejournal.com 2008-11-05 04:28 pm (UTC)(link)

My gods, we as a people actually CAN change!
That is what give me goosebumps.

Re: About 45 years wide.

[identity profile] phreddd.livejournal.com 2008-11-05 04:46 pm (UTC)(link)
...or at least build on the groundwork (and the Prop 8 crap in Cali. shows that there is much ground still to be covered).
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Re: About 45 years wide.

[identity profile] kevynjacobs.livejournal.com 2008-11-05 05:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh yes, there is definitely a LOOOOONG way to go.

But Obama's election shows that there is hope.

We. Can. Change.

[identity profile] nudewoody.livejournal.com 2008-11-05 05:38 pm (UTC)(link)
We shall see.
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[personal profile] mellowtigger 2008-11-06 05:28 am (UTC)(link)
On Chocolate News tonight (near as I can remember the quote)...

"from picking cotton under high sun, to flying on air force one"
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