Living history

Today is a historic moment that will go down in the history books for all generations to come. It is Jackie Robinson all over again. But instead of a baseball diamond, the playing field is politics.

On this day, Barack Obama officially accepts the Democratic Party nomination to run as their candidate, the first black American ever to be nominated.

I have a lot of thoughts spinning around in my head and I'll get to writing them down eventually. But one of the largest things I am feeling is worry. However momentus this is, a small piece of my gut tightens when I think about it.

Obama is being likened to MLK.
And he will giving his acceptance speech on the 50 yard line of Invesco Field in Denver.
JFK gave his acceptance outdoors.
Now Barack.

No matter how you feel about the man, you hope that the parallels aren't too obvious, and the the fates are looking the other way. You hope that we have evolved as a people since those earlier days and that we have grown beyond expressing our opinions with a gun.

We hope.