http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/11/obama-hour/ Thu, 12 Jan 2012 08:40:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/11/obama-hour/#comment-5969 Sean Singer Thu, 06 Nov 2008 19:35:20 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=1137#comment-5969 Thanks for this poem, Thomas. "…the true subject of democracy is not simply material well-being but the extension of the democratic process in the direction of perfecting itself. And that the most obvious test and clue to that perfection is the inclusion — not assimilation — of the black man." -Ralph Ellison, “What America Would Be Like Without Blacks,” Time, April 6, 1970 Thanks for this poem, Thomas.
“…the true subject of democracy is not simply material well-being but the extension of the democratic process in the direction of perfecting itself. And that the most obvious test and clue to that perfection is the inclusion — not assimilation — of the black man.”
-Ralph Ellison, “What America Would Be Like Without Blacks,” Time, April 6, 1970
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