hear, hear

ms. tucker remembers and i do, too:

A new America — a more just America — rises.

Whether Obama wins or loses, the America in which Fields grew up — preserved as perfect in the amber of her memory — is passing away. The monochromatic America of Christian prayers before football games and New Testament scriptures read in fifth-grade classrooms; the America of all-white juries, an all-white Congress and all-white classrooms; the America of gay men denied security clearances out of fear they could be blackmailed and young pregnant women dying from coat-hanger abortions; the America of George Wallace, Phyllis Schlafly and Anita Bryant — that America recedes before a new tide.

I do not mourn its passing.