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    Opinion

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    Posted on Sun, May. 11, 2008 10:15 PM
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    Pro-Con: Does Barack Obama offer a real possibility for change? YES

    Sen. Barack Obama greeted tourists and congessional pages in the House last week.
    Sen. Barack Obama greeted tourists and congessional pages in the House last week.

      All I know is that whether or not Barack Obama captures the Democratic nomination, my sticker is here to stay. I am supporting him because this country desperately needs a change of leadership and that change needs to be groundbreaking.

      We need to be stirred out of our current apathy in a way that our neighbors’ foreclosures and a nearly $4 gallon of gas still haven’t managed to.

      I am supporting him because the prospect of my daughter’s grandchildren having to show up for that hundredth year in Iraq terrifies me. At least Obama had the sense to oppose the war, even when doing so risked getting painted by the unpatriotic brush.

      As an educator, a person who works with young people, and who works with words, I am also heartened to see a large number of young men and women find their own political voice in a way that they haven’t in a very long time.

      Edwidge Danticat, author of “Brother, I’m Dying,” for The Progressive .

       

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