Monday, January 19, 2009

Perspective

Very interesting op-ed piece in the NY Times yesterday about what Lincoln might have thought of Obama. Co-authored by a great scholar, Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

An especially fitting piece given that Obama reminds me of both Lincoln & MLK in many ways. Today, of course, is the day that we celebrate the man we lost on April 4, 1968, to the detriment of the civil rights movement & American society as a whole.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

wasn't MLK assassinated on April 4th?

Stacey said...

Oops - you are absolutely correct, Anonymous. Thanks for the heads up - don't know how I could have made that mistake. Post has been fixed accordingly.