embarrassing

Just a few months ago I was canvassing for Obama in front of a supermarket near my house; there was more than one typically dark face (for my neighborhood) becoming angry at me, saying things like "What are you doing that for? You're wasting your time. No black man can win the presidency!" It was almost an affront to their concept of how the world worked. I had never seen anything like it (ok so I'm a bit sheltered).

My favorite thing about today is watching the talking heads on TV, saying things like "this is historic, a black man won the white vote in Iowa blah blah" and the best word I can come up with to express my reaction is embarrassment; how arrogantly condescending of them to say such things. Even they themselves seem to know this, forming such superlatives without the fullness of their heart and looking forward to the next thing to say.

I think it's a happy thing that it only takes one day, the right day, to move such thoughts from the future to the past.