A combo of topics: you know how we were talking about your story with the little Asian girl and CareBears being a San Francisco story?
This is from a NY Times story this morning about ways that Obama's modelling how to talk about race is helping whites/blacks to get down to it and discuss their thoughts--and it's a San Francisco story, too!:
"On the morning after the election, Kristin Rothballer, 36, who lives in San Francisco, kissed her female partner goodbye on the train while commuting to work. A black woman who sat down next to her turned and said she was sorry that Proposition 8, the amendment to ban gay marriage in the state, looked like it was going to pass.
'We grabbed hands,' Ms. Rothballer recalled. 'And I said, "Well, I really want to congratulate you because we have a black president and that's amazing."'
'Our conversation then almost became about the fact that we were having the conversation,' she said.
Something moved her to apologize to the black woman for slavery.
'For two strangers riding a train to Oakland to have that conversation about race, it wouldn't have been possible if Obama hadn’t been elected,' she said. 'I always felt open with my colleagues, but to say to a stranger on the train, "Hey, I'm sorry about slavery," that just doesn't happen.'
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Date: 2009-01-14 08:20 pm (UTC)This is from a NY Times story this morning about ways that Obama's modelling how to talk about race is helping whites/blacks to get down to it and discuss their thoughts--and it's a San Francisco story, too!:
"On the morning after the election, Kristin Rothballer, 36, who lives in San Francisco, kissed her female partner goodbye on the train while commuting to work. A black woman who sat down next to her turned and said she was sorry that Proposition 8, the amendment to ban gay marriage in the state, looked like it was going to pass.
'We grabbed hands,' Ms. Rothballer recalled. 'And I said, "Well, I really want to congratulate you because we have a black president and that's amazing."'
'Our conversation then almost became about the fact that we were having the conversation,' she said.
Something moved her to apologize to the black woman for slavery.
'For two strangers riding a train to Oakland to have that conversation about race, it wouldn't have been possible if Obama hadn’t been elected,' she said. 'I always felt open with my colleagues, but to say to a stranger on the train, "Hey, I'm sorry about slavery," that just doesn't happen.'
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/15/fashion/15race.html?hp
Ha ha ha
Date: 2009-01-14 08:36 pm (UTC)