Wednesday 5 November 2008

oh me oh my, my vil-onik purchases are coming in like a tide/ but, much more importantly, having studied 20th century american history i fucking wept with joy at obama's victory / i truly cannot believe it/ from the horrific pictures in cook's letters from america (the 'strange fruit'), jazz musicians not permitted to stay at hotels they were booked to play in the 60's to a black president in 2008/ a phenomenal and deeply beautiful thing/ i feel cheesy saying it but i keep choking back the tears/ i, and i'm sure i'm in the company of many millions, cannot believe such a remarkable thing has happened/ clearly he won because he was the best man for the job (no preference should be given because of race) but the fact that obama is black is hugely significant/ how many more black men and women would have been far more capable of running the country were it not for the vile scourge of racism?/ today is a great jour indeed/

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