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"I kept waiting for him to get shot."
Published November 07, 2008 @ 05:54PM PST
"During his acceptance speech, all that time he was talking up on stage, I kept waiting for him to get shot."
-Young, happy-hour-drinking hipster in San Francisco, referring to fears that President-Elect Obama will get shot because of his race.
Much like the importance of acknowledging our role as a generation that has largely felt uncomfortable finding any fort of national pride to this point, it is also important to point out that we're one that holds onto a substantial amount of skepticism with regard to our own successes. We're not quite sure what to do with them, as we haven't come by many in a political sense, and we've been raised by a generation of people who, every time a representative of social progress found some level of prominance, were disappointed to see that leader martyred.
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Alex Steed
- Boston, ME
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Alex is a freelance journalist, activist, and online community management consultant based in Boston and Portland, Maine. He currently serves as executive editor of MakeSomethingHappen.net, where he writes about online organizing and the power of collective action.
