An Obama Voter Writes…

We don’t like to get sentimental, but an email posted at Ta-Nehisi Coates’ blog this week is worth a look no matter your partisan inclination. It’s from reader whose parents—an elderly, interracial couple—voted for Obama this weekend in Georgia. “After seven decades of constant struggle, my father walked into that booth and knew that his life's work was now done,” the correspondent writes. “My stepmother can think of every person who secretly and not-so-secretly thought of her as some kind of race traitor, smile, and think, ‘I told you so!’ Obama will win, I'm sure he will. But today, my parents did. I am so deeply, deeply grateful.”