I was thinking how the stagecraft was perfect and the hug was a totally warm touch. But you're right. I'm sure it had some teeth on edge around the country. Oh, f 'em!

Perspective.

to vote on repeal of an old Jim Crow era law that prohibited interracial marriage, to get an odious, old, law off the books.

It was repealed, but by an uncomfortably narrow margin.

There is change, but there's a tendency to overestimate the extent of it.

...that one day men will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character

Mission Accomplished

as Obama noted Democracy is not easy and change is slow-but on this nite a descendant of a black man and a white woman gave one of the Classic Political Speeches in American Political History

Wow-what a Nite

But, damn, that was an image to be proud of