I watched Guess Who's Coming To Dinner a couple of months ago and until then, I'd forgotten about the scene where one of the parents asks Sidney Poitier what he thought about having mixed race children. He said "Well, I'm not sure, but Joey thinks they'll all be president of the United States." And at the time that would have sounded so naive and impossible. Barack Obama was a little boy when that movie was made. Look what is happening now. It's amazing and inspirational.
It is amazing, isn't it? If Obama is president for the next eight years, my kids will be nine and 12 by the end of his second term. They will never have known a world where a person of colour can not be president. Even from up here in Canada, it makes my eyes well up. I'm rooting for you guys down there. Good luck!
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I watched Guess Who's Coming To Dinner a couple of months ago and until then, I'd forgotten about the scene where one of the parents asks Sidney Poitier what he thought about having mixed race children. He said "Well, I'm not sure, but Joey thinks they'll all be president of the United States." And at the time that would have sounded so naive and impossible. Barack Obama was a little boy when that movie was made. Look what is happening now. It's amazing and inspirational.
It is amazing, isn't it? If Obama is president for the next eight years, my kids will be nine and 12 by the end of his second term. They will never have known a world where a person of colour can not be president. Even from up here in Canada, it makes my eyes well up. I'm rooting for you guys down there. Good luck!
Today is so, so amazing. I just had to stop by you and congratulate you guys, with your new president!
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