America Will Be ...

[marmar]

from OurFuture.org:



America Will Be ...
By Terrance Heath

May 16th, 2008 - 9:44am ET


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I knew as soon as the California Supreme Court marriage ruling was posted, that I would read the whole thing. I started reading it at my desk, after it was posted, but stopped once got to the "bottom line" of the ruling — and, truly, because as I realized what I was reading, and what the California Supreme Court had said, the emotion was too much.

I wasn't born when the Brown v. Board of Education ruling was handed down, so I don't know what it was like for those Black Americans who heard it or read it and realized what the court had done. But I think I have an idea, based on what I felt yesterday after reading the decision.

I know it was a state supreme court decision, and one that doesn't apply to me all the way over here on the other side of the country. But yesterday, reading the decision, I felt a little bit more like an American. And maybe even just a little proud of my country.

This is something I meant to write at the time, but that occurred to me yesterday, as I was walking home. Reading the CA Supremes ruling yesterday, and thinking about my own feelings, I thought about Michelle Obama's comments about finally being proud of America. I understood what she meant even then, but more-so after yesterday's ruling.

Yesterday, I finally felt just a little proud to be an American. Finally.

To understand where someone like Michelle Obama is coming from — or yours truly, for that matter — you have to look a America through the prism of someone without the privileges upon which it was founded from the beginning; from the perspective of people for whom the promises of being an American in America have been historically held out of reach. ......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/america-will-be

[rurallib]

1. Some of the oral argument was on CSPAN about a month ago

Talk about a one sided contest. I have no idea which California judge is which (BTW what a diverse group). They all kept hammering at privacy and a person's right to make personal choices for themselves. Every time the anti-gay marriage guys would argue they would just get hammered with questions on why can't a person decide who they want to spend their lives with. It was literally almost brutal.