More Than Just a Pretty Voice

Not only does he quote Faulkner; not only does he grapple with racial problems in America now; not only does he face down his black pastor who said some nasty things; not only does he mention his white grandmother who said some other nasty things; he expresses an idea I’ve always had to resort to just because I grew up in Los Angeles, where the landscape can be ugly and the people you see to write about are not always the sort of people readers “fall in love with,” or even relate to, at least in books: “These people are part of me, and they are part of America, this country that I love.”

Meanwhile, America stumbles: Reuters reports that some moneychangers won’t touch dollars in Amsterdam, and the value of the dollar has put America’s gross domestic product behind Europe’s for the first time since, gosh, forever.

     posted 18 March 2008 by Michael Scott Moore

  1. Hey, even as a Hillary delegate, I am with my main man Bill Richardson, that this speech was a tilting point to anyone who wants to think about it. I love reading the conservative message boards I haunt because they still want to go back to arguments from before the speech and it is suddenly as tired as bald tires on snowpack…I am not changing my Hillary vote at the state level, but I am also urging negotiations about the cabinet and stuff right now, so we can just all agree he is going to be the nominee.

    e

    — e    Mar 22, 08:36 am    #

  2. That’s so good to hear, about the bald tires on snowpack as well as those negotiations.

    — Mike    Mar 22, 11:14 am    #