-from Little Worlds, 2009
I overheard Leonard, one of our neighbors, say the other day, “Well, I guess we’re going to have to vote for that colored boy now.” It reminds me of how much things have changed, yet stayed the same, in the county. That local people would vote for a Black man for president while referring to him as a “colored boy” is enough to make my head spin. But change is elusive, and often forced, and in this case my neighbor would have voted differently had he felt he had a choice. But he would have never voted for a Republican.
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