Rogers Cadenhead attends an Obama rally
Rogers Cadenhead on an Obama rally he attended in Orlando:
Throughout the event, black families, some with aging grandparents and young children, gently moved through attendees to get closer. Although the crowd was racially and generationally diverse, you couldn’t miss the emotion of blacks who had come to see Obama’s first event in the city. As an adopted Floridian who has learned the tragic history of race relations in the Sunshine State during my decade here, I had to marvel at the progress that brought some of the older Americans in attendance past central Florida’s Rosewood massacre, Klan lynchings, poll taxes and the civil rights struggle to this amazing moment in time.
Kind of made me think I should take a personal day and go out and see Obama if he comes back to North Carolina before the election.
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