Kerouac's prophesy.

[Kind of Blue]

"The future of America lies in the Negro..." I remember hearing this Jack Kerouac phrase as a pre-teen back in the early '70s and it has always haunted me. The sensation grew stronger and hasn't abated since Sen. Obama's speech during the '04 convention, when I wondered, is it he? I thought, fine and dandy, but how would it ever be possible if people do not look past "the Negro's" color. So I found the exact quote. Please read it and know that I am not aggrandizing someone of my own ethnic group as the savior of America, because at this point in our lives it would not matter if Obama were White, Asian or Native American. I post it because Kerouac foresaw the groundswell that was to come, in a momentous attempt to save ourselves, so huge, as Bill Maher said the other night that after 911 Americans would elect a Black man with a Muslim name.

"FEBRUARY 25, 1949. New York. The sad fact about the modern American small city like Poughkeepsie is that it has none of the strength of the metropolis and all the ugly pettiness. Dismal streets, dismal lives. Thousands of drunkards in bars. But out of this wreckage rises a veritable Cleophus—the Negro I met there this weekend. The future of America lies in the Negro like Cleo . . . I know it now. It is the simplicity and raw strength, rising out of the American ground, that will save us."

I'm crazy nervous today and trying to maintain but I guess, deep down inside, I know if nothing else, This Negro Barack Obama has created the critical mass in thinking that, whether he wins or not, has changed the mental landscape for many Americans and there's no turning back.

[BoneDaddy]

1. The future of us lies in US

and the black man and woman are a part of US. We are the European, the Asian, the African (hell we all from Africa genetically), the South and Central American and all peoples. Barack is a metaphor for US, an amalgamation of thoughts, experiences and desires who WE brought out in us. He would not have made it here if it were not for US.

Thanks all.