This short but beautiful post by Ta-Nehisi Coates inspired a little reflection of my own on the impact of what might be about to happen on Tuesday. I was thinking today about the fact that this is, well, actually about to happen.
A little background: I was born in 1984 and remember being vaguely aware of Bush 41, but Bill Clinton was really the first president who I actually followed, and he was kind of what I thought of when you said "president" -- a generic white, smart, ostentatiously culturally southern Democratic centrist-technocrat. (Imagine the one-eighty my little ass did when this Dubya joker strutted onto the scene!) I honestly thought all the rest of the presidents were going to be like that -- and but for 537 votes in Florida, I was almost right! Obviously, that was more than a little naive, but these first impressions make a big impact on how kids grow up viewing the world and how their sense of "normal" gets calibrated.
Fast forward to...well, tomorrow.
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