On his blog, Matt Gunn
makes sense:
Our country's a lot better than George W. Bush imagines it.
When I was a kid, I read about the civil rights battles of the 1960's and would ask myself: would I have been one of the good white guys or one of the bad white guys? I really hoped I'd be a good white guy, one of those courageous enough to ignore the day's popular sentiment and march alongside my fellow black Americans. I even kind of lamented that I'd never get to prove my mettle, because the era had passed.
I may get my chance after all. It's painfully clear today that we're engaged in the great civil rights fight of our generation. As a nation, I hope we're ready for that fight. I know I am.
Maybe a lot of you are already there, but I found this simple statement of purpose clarifying. It is what I knew in my gut to be what this was about, but hadn't quite got the historical moment down. Matt's post did it for me, simply and forcibly.