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Written 70 years ago, the poem Let America Be America Again, by Langston Hughes,
has as much resonance today as it did in 1938:
Amen.O, yes,
I say it plain,
America never was America to me,
And yet I swear this oath--
America will be!Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death,
The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies,
We, the people, must redeem
The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers.
The mountains and the endless plain--
All, all the stretch of these great green states--
And make America again!from Let America be America Again (1938)
Langston Hughes [1902 - 1967].
Sen. Obama was born Aug 5, 1961. He's less than two months older than me. As a friend wrote, "Some 40 years or so after Dr. King articulated his dream, we now begin to see its manifestation in the body politic to a degree never before possible. I have rarely been prouder to be an American. There is hope for this nation yet and hope coming to this nation."