What An African Woman Thinks
Barack's ascension to the Presidency is a milestone, but it's nowhere near the end of the journey.Cross burnings. Schoolchildren chanting "Assassinate Obama." Black figures hung from nooses. Racial epithets scrawled on homes and cars. Incidents around the country referring to President-elect Barack Obama are dampening the postelection glow of racial progress and harmony, highlighting the stubborn racism that remains in America.
So there are some bad apples in the American basket.
Well, to be fair, every place on earth has its own.
UPDATE: Clearly, somebody somewhere's been riled. From the Christian Science Monitor,
"We're not looking at a race war or anything close to it, but ... what we are seeing now is undeniably a fairly major backlash by some subset of the white population," says Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Report in Montomgery, Ala. "Many whites feel that the country their forefathers built has been ... stolen from them, so there's in some places a real boiling rage, and that can only become worse as more people lose jobs."
I'm curious to see how this story develops in the coming weeks and months.It's my window, but I don't own the view.