I bumped into a couple African Americans in a Safeway line the other day. All three of us were looking at a magazine cover with Barack Obama’s family on the cover. As the line moved and I turned forward, one of the men behind me said, "Wow, it still hasn’t hit me," and the other said, "Yeah, I know, I can’t believe it either". I couldn’t help but smile.
Then the first man said "Yeah, and the big thing is, it isn’t the big story—" And his friend jumped in and said, "No, Proposition 8 is. And when that fails in the courts, they’re going to look at it, and say, California, which is so liberal, didn’t pass it twice … so maybe that will make ‘them‘ think twice."
I was dumbfounded, and had bought my pound cake and mouthwash and walked out of the store before I could think of an adequate comeback: "Did getting turned away from one or two schoolhouses make the civil rights movement stop? No. And this isn’t going to go away either."
-the Centaur
