Amy Goodman's New Column President Obama Can Redeem the White House

Amy Goodman's New Column "President Obama Can Redeem the White House"

Amy Goodman's New Column "President Obama Can Redeem the White House"
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Alice Walker is the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. But Monday, I called her to talk about a true story. The Obamas had just visited the White House. The first African-American elected president of the United States had visited his soon-to-be residence, a house built by slaves. Walker told me: ?Even when they were building it, you know, in chains or in desperation and in sadness, they were building it for him. Ancestors take a very long view of life, and they see what is coming.? The author of ?The Color Purple,? who writes about slavery and redemption, went on, ?This is a great victory of the spirit and for people who have had to live basically by faith.? More
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