Major social movements eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience.
Obama, he wouldn't have been in office without what happened to me and a lot of black people before me. He would never have been in that situation, no doubt in my mind. He would get there eventually, but it would have been a lot longer. So I am glad for what I went through. It opened the doors for a
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