re: #2 Backwoods_Sleuth

Posted this downstairs, but works here as well:

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Jackie Robinson was such a powerful symbol in the civil rights movement (even if he pre-dated what we generally consider the start of said movement). His value in inspiring African-Americans to demand their equality as human beings might not be measurable, but it was undoubtedly there.

I’m hoping there’s a similar symbolic effect from the Obama presidency. In 1950, a minority child may have looked to Robinson as a symbol of all he/she could do. I hope in 20-30 years, we’ll be feeling the positive force of a generation of minority adults who were children when they could look to Obama’s presidency of a symbol of all that they could become.