Daughter of Slave Votes for Obama
30 October 2008 10:30 am by Taylor Marsh
BY TAYLOR MARSH
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| via American-Statesman photo by Larry Kolvoord |
At long last it’s come to pass.
Amanda Jones, 109, the daughter of a man born into slavery, has lived a life long enough to touch three centuries. And after voting consistently as a Democrat for 70 years, she has voted early for the country’s first black presidential nominee.
This story reminded me of the night I sat in Invesco Field next to an African American man and his friends. When Obama was introduced and walked on to the stage, he just talked under his breath, obviously in astonished disbelief and feeling the greatest of joys.
If we can elect Barack Obama it won’t end racial divisions, but it will go a giant step towards healing a great national wound.
