Comments on: A Change Gonna Come? http://whereimfrom.wordpress.com/2008/01/16/a-change-gonna-come/ collective blog of awesomeness Mon, 12 May 2008 17:23:17 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Boggs Center http://whereimfrom.wordpress.com/2008/01/16/a-change-gonna-come/#comment-33 Boggs Center Mon, 12 May 2008 17:23:17 +0000 http://whereimfrom.wordpress.com/2008/01/16/a-change-gonna-come/#comment-33 Learn more about Grace Lee Boggs and her work with the Boggs Center and Detroit City of Hope at the Boggs Center Blog, Unending Conversations of Hope: http://conversationsthatyouwillneverfinish.wordpress.com/ And at the Boggs Center website: http://www.boggscenter.org/ Learn more about Grace Lee Boggs and her work with the Boggs Center and Detroit City of Hope at the Boggs Center Blog, Unending Conversations of Hope:
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And at the Boggs Center website:
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]]> By: paloma http://whereimfrom.wordpress.com/2008/01/16/a-change-gonna-come/#comment-16 paloma Wed, 23 Jan 2008 03:49:27 +0000 http://whereimfrom.wordpress.com/2008/01/16/a-change-gonna-come/#comment-16 I watched Obama's MLK-day speech yesterday. It was powerful and moving. I found myself nodding along, feeling that inevitable swelling of pride that takes over me when I see a person of color who's 'made it.' But then I realized -- remembered, I guess -- that he wasn't really saying anything -- just repeating the same old DLC politics, wrapped poetically in the legacy of the Civil Rights movement. As we prepare to be bombarded for the rest of the year with more and more of the same -- more and more of the establishment politics of the blue and red, we need to be reminded just as often that real change will never come from the White House or Capitol Hill. Grace Lee Boggs says it perfectly. Thanks May. I watched Obama’s MLK-day speech yesterday. It was powerful and moving. I found myself nodding along, feeling that inevitable swelling of pride that takes over me when I see a person of color who’s ‘made it.’ But then I realized — remembered, I guess — that he wasn’t really saying anything — just repeating the same old DLC politics, wrapped poetically in the legacy of the Civil Rights movement.
As we prepare to be bombarded for the rest of the year with more and more of the same — more and more of the establishment politics of the blue and red, we need to be reminded just as often that real change will never come from the White House or Capitol Hill.
Grace Lee Boggs says it perfectly.
Thanks May.

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