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The three most important moments of my life have been: 1. When I became a believer in Jesus Christ. 2….
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Recently, I received several e-mails accusing me of being an angry black man. I will admit to being black, and…
Michael Steele, the new chairman of the Republican National Committee, was in Bellevue recently to speak at a rally. By the way, he’s also African American.
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Bill and Melinda Gates recently met with several superintendents of large school districts, including Washington, D.C., New York and Chicago.
I was urged not to say a kind word about George Bush. I was even asked, how could I, given all the mistakes he has made. It became even harder when my sister called me and said my 87-year-old mother waited three hours in the rain to vote for Barack Obama.
I didn’t want to write this article. But I came to the realization that I had to.
On election night, when I saw Barack Obama had won the presidency, I literally fell to my knees and wept. I thought about my 87-year-old mother who waited in line for hours to vote for a black man, or my father, with his steely brown eyes filled with tears. The pain was indescribable.
It happened on a rainy election night.
