Trump is President, but is Obama’s Vision Still the Future of America?
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by John Blake,
Even now, 10 years later, Sher Watts Spooner gets choked up.
She remembers dodging through a euphoric crowd of 350,000 in Chicago’s Grant Park to stand just 150 feet from the stage when President-elect Barack Obama appeared.
She remembers the tears, the fist pumps and the perfect strangers who hugged one another. And she remembers black, white and brown parents pausing to explain the significance of the moment to their children, as teenagers ran through the streets yelling, “Obama won! Obama won!”
The term “post-racial” is now used more as a punch line than a rallying cry. Hope and change have been replaced by tweets and tribalism.
Even Obama has voiced his doubts.
“What if we were wrong?” Obama asked after the election of President Trump in 2016, according to a recent memoir by one of his closest aides. “Maybe we pushed too far. … Maybe people just want to fall back into their tribe.”
But talk to Obama supporters like Spooner and they say something else: What Obama started that night Trump cannot stop.
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