Kevin's Watch

Stonemaybe wrote:

He's Hawaiian, he's Kenyan, American too
He's in the White House
He took his chance
Now let's see Barrack do Riverdance

Someone has to win awards for those lyrics!

hear, hear!!

Menolly wrote:And I can't wait for the day
when the election of an African American,
Asian American,
First Native,
Latino American,
Woman,
etc.,
to the office of President of the United States, receives no notice out of the ordinary at all.

Wow, I hadn't thought of that! Won't it be really something when a Native American became president?

A historic day indeed. However, let's just remember that before being African (barely ) or Hawaiian or American, he is, first and foremost, a politician.

--A

Avatar wrote:A historic day indeed. However, let's just remember that before being African (barely ) or Hawaiian or American, he is, first and foremost, a politician.

--A

Believe me. . . I didn't forget for a moment.

It was brought home to me just how far we have come and are still coming in the good old USA. Several teenagers got on the bus at Market St tonight. I was sitting towards the back and a few of them ended up standing next to my seat. They were of various nationalities and fashion statements. It was most gratifying to hear the African American kid with the complicated braid hairstyle who looked like he just stepped out of a gangsta rap video say to the geeky Asian kid with the wire rimmed glasses and North Face backpack who was surfing the net on his iphone, "You wanna grab a burger and play a game of pool before you go home?" and to hear the Asian kid say, "No, I can't I got alot of homework and we stayed downtown too late already." It warmed my heart.