Thursday, December 4, 2008

NYT: singer Suzanne Vega writes a brilliant essay on her mixed Latin heritage

"In the weeks following the recent election, though, there has been a very different feeling in the air in these neighborhoods, a feeling of relief, of recognition, of pride. There is going to be a man in the White House (Barack Obama) whose mother was white and whose father was black. He was a mixed-race child; he is a black man. His family is multicultural, as mine is. What a relief to see this represented in the realities of power and politics! In the media!"

http://measureformeasure.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/03/which-side-are-you-on/?8dpc

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