Tomorrow is a big day.
It's time for us to turn the page on the past.
There is one candidate who can help us do it.
From Peter Wehner at the Washington Post:
...unlike Clinton and especially John Edwards, Obama has a message that, at its core, is about unity and hope rather than division and resentment. He stresses that "out of many we are one." And to his credit, Barack Obama is running a color-blind campaign. "I did not travel around this state over the last year and see a white South Carolina or a black South Carolina," Obama said in his victory speech last weekend. "I saw South Carolina." That evening, his crowd of supporters chanted as one, "Race doesn't matter." This was an electric moment. Obama's words are in the great tradition of Martin Luther King Jr. Obama, more than any figure in America, can help bind up the racial wounds of America. In addition, for the past eight years, one of the most prominent qualities of the American left has been anger, which has served it and the country very poorly. An Obama primary win would be a move away from the politics of rage.
Whatever you may think about your preferred candidate, you've gotta admit, a statement like that is powerful beyond belief.
Race Doesn't Matter.
Tears come to my eyes just thinking about it.
It truly does not and should not matter. I work in a field that is the definition of color-blind. But to see a political movement that makes this powerfully humanistic statement in a place where race has most definitely mattered in the most tragic way for hundreds of years, is something that gives me an irrational spark of hope that has been dead in my heart for a long time.
I've cast my ballot. And I've cast it for hope.
I've cast it because I want America to show its best face to humanity. After we have shown it our worst face for eight long years.
I'm as angry as or angrier than most because of what has happened to us and to our Nation.
But now I'm tired of anger.
I want the light of hope to be back in our hearts, and I want people around the world to see that light again, after this terrible period of darkness for our Nation.
Race Doesn't Matter.