Good Article

Brian Walsh has a good article on the recent election of President Barak Obama.

Here is a small clip:

Let’s take the memory of racism. Here Obama and his supporters clearly tap into the memory of the civil rights movement. This election is a momentous vindication, four decades after King’s assassination, of that movement. That history, those memories, those sacrifices come to an important and liberating moment of fulfillment and fruition in the historic election of November 4, 2008. Praise God! An Obama presidency is not a post-racial presidency, but, we hope and pray, a post-racism presidency. The original sin of America was slavery. Today is a day of redemption. Today is a day of Jubilee. Praise God!

But we must remember that slavery and racism have always been part of a larger imperial narrative. If vision for the future is rooted in memory, then just as a post-racist presidency must tap into the roots of the civil rights movement, so also must a post-imperial presidency revisit some of the foundational memories of America.