3quarksdaily posted the following poem by Langston Huges that I thought was so relevant after yesterday's historic election and echoes some of the points from president-elect Obama's moving speech last night in Chicago:
Wednesday Poem
Let America be America Again
Langston Hughes
Let America be America again.
Let it be the dream it used to be.
Let it be the pioneer on the plain
Seeking a home where he himself is free.
(America never was America to me.)
Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed--
Let it be that great strong land of love
Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme
That any man be crushed by one above.
Watching that speech and seeing the crowd I was struck by a sense of possibility and opportunity. For the first time in a long time I was inspired and awed at a renewed glimmer of hope that maybe, just maybe, America can dig its way out of the abyss which this great experiment has been slipping into.
Undoubtedly we romanticize the founding fathers and the earlier times in our nation's history, but I believe America was once great, and can be so again. Here's hoping that we are launching ourselves into a new era.
[ via 3quarksdaily ]
Undoubtedly we romanticize the founding fathers and the earlier times in our nation's history, but I believe America was once great, and can be so again. Here's hoping that we are launching ourselves into a new era.
[ via 3quarksdaily ]
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