Thirty years ago, my dad told me he'd never vote for a black man.
Three days ago, he told me that it would break his heart if President Obama lost this election.
Don't let the wingnuts fool you: America is becoming a better place, one heart at a time.
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She lived more than a hundred years and saw many changes. She herself changed over the years and I think she would have loved Barack Obama.
A boyfriend wrote this in her yearbook:
When grapes grow big as pumpkins
When Rockefeller hasn't got a cent
When Bullfrogs start singing Bees Knees
And we have a colored President
When Ivory soap sinks in water
And the crust of the earth fall thru
And when we don't have any more movies
Then I might forget about you.
This boyfriend was long gone when my great aunt married a guy born in Italy, the love of her life, a divorced Catholic gentleman her White Anglo Saxon Parents parents or she herself as a high school girl would never have accepted.
People grow.
I hope we don't have to wait for the hateful hearts to die. I hope we can change them one heart at a time.
