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...certainly don’t expect people who aren’t black to know quite what it feels like when you glimpse the world your children will grow up in and realize it will treat them better than it treated you. I do not expect anyone who has not experienced it to understand what it feels like to be frowned at in a high-end store or ogled at by tourists in Harvard Yard surprised to see a black person in a Harvard sweater. I do not expect anyone who has not experienced it to understand what it feels...
...election, I was on the Redline inbound to Braintree. In many ways it was the usual Wednesday afternoon subway crowd: tiny Asian grandmothers clutching shopping bags, girls in leggings lost in their iPod worlds, thirty-somethings in scrubs who got on and off at Charles MGH. But the black passengers seemed changed, somehow. Maybe it was the young black man wearing a shirt of the type that usually has a hip-hop artist plastered across its front, only Tupac’s face was replaced by Barack Obama’s. Or maybe it was the black woman...
...victories and breaking the racial barrier in the past week than we heard about Joe Six-pack in the weeks before the election. In a sense, it does Obama a disservice to celebrate his race—as though the only important thing he ever did was to be black. A weariness that borders on cynicism has settled around the topic of Obama as a black man, especially among those who love Obama for reasons that have nothing to do with his race. Much to the annoyance of non-black Obama supporters, African-Americans seem to have adopted Obama...
...Although the black community has appropriated Obama as a black hero, this does not mean that he cannot be an American hero as well. The two have been considered mutually exclusive for so long that I am afraid people have begun to believe it. But did the fact that Martin Luther King Jr. was a black hero preclude him from being an American hero? Did his achievements as a man mean something only because he was a black man? Are our goals as Americans really so different that a black hero cannot promote the same values as an American hero...
...many Americans, Obama’s election means a departure from the death and destruction and ignorance of the past eight years. For black Americans, it means a departure from the death and destruction and ignorance of the past several hundred years. We are not as culturally and economically unified a group as non-blacks would like to believe: Some of us are rich and others are poor, some of us are of mixed race, some of us come from other countries, some of us live in the rural South while others live in the urban North. The thing that...