patty...this old agitator (not hippie) wishes he could see again the courthouse in Hattiesburg, and find the young black girl who marched ahead of me in the picket line for voting rights in 1964. She defied the rules and started singing "Let My People Go" and it sounded GOOD for 5-6 minutes until the sheriff threatened to arrest us!
I'd like to know that she voted, and that she is still singing! I was there for ONE WEEK, and later in McComb for a week....she lived there and endured and likely is still there. She deserves the toast and I hope she has some idea of how pleased we 'agitators' are that we made a bit of a difference.

I do hope that most of those folks vote for Obama because he is good, rather than just because he has some black heritage...but it is SO important that they have the opportunity.