I WAS A PART OF HISTORY TODAY
I WAS A PART OF HISTORY TODAY
by Phil Seahorn
photo copyright STLTODAY.COM
I sincerely did not want to write anything political on my blog, as this blog is really my online portfolio of writing and art.
HOWEVER, I feel that I CAN write about something that happened today, in which transcends politics.
I attended a historical event.
Indeed, in my humble opinion, I think this was a historical event FOR THE WORLD.
As a person of color born a second class citizen in the United States, I witnessed something today that really and truly culminates the very essence of what the United States is SUPPOSED to represent.
I witnessed 100, 000 people (fuck the OFFICIAL report, I was fucking there) gather together in St. Louis, Mo, a little over 100 feet from where the Dredd Scott case was tried.
100 feet , where the descendant of the circumstances of that very trial stood before 100,000 people.
Where this descendant runs a very good chance of becoming the leader of the most powerful country in the world.
A country whose basis is freedom for all, and opportunity for all.
A country that stands at the threshhold of electing a man of color, to the most powerful position of this country.
And the world.
The President of the United States.
I was there, and I saw all those people.
I was, as I am now writing this, moved to tears.
This man may not win the Presidency.
But I was there to see this man in the process of making history.
I saw St. Louis, Mo, the place where I was born, become a part of history.
And this day will be a day that will stay with me.
For the rest of my life.
Phil Seahorn
October 18th, 2008
posted by PHILLIP SEAHORN @ 6:45 PM
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