Glory Hallelujah!

Barak Obama’s win in Iowa is a victory born in the early years of the civil rights movement, the movement that laid down its life to end segregation; a movement grounded in pacifism and non-violence. The fierce black nationalism that followed the movement, however important, is finally under siege……and emerging out of the brutal polarity of those years is a sort of miracle….in which to be black in America is an honor, but only one piece of a decent life. Racism will probably never disappear….but on the night of Thursday, January 3, 2008, in a state that is 97% white, a black man made his case based on intellect, humanity and political savvy. Glory Hallelujah!