Yesterday, as I drove home from school, I listened to Obama's race speech on the local radio station. I was stopped at a stop sign on a winding road that snakes through the Northern New Jersey suburbs. I had passed the field hockey fields of the fancy private school and was driving towards the pick-up trucks and the rough rentals by the side of the railroad tracks. At that stop sign, I turned the volume up.
When I got home, I read the speech on line. When Steve got home, he asked me if I heard the speech and then he promptly went to watch the speech on YouTube. In the hallways of school today, we simply asked, "did you hear the speech?"
I think that if I discussed the speech, I would do damage to it. All I can say is that I heard it. And I am convinced that we're living in important times.
