Howard Dean sure knows how to crash a good party. Since this election cycle began about a year ago, the consensus has been that this November's upcoming presidential election is securely in Democratic hands. This sentiment, however, hasn't stopped the party from taking every opportunity to sabotage itself, whether through vitriolic infighting, campaign scandals or draconian party regulations.
We the people
Disheveled and dirty
Covered in mud flung
Between back and forth
Assertions
Are elevated and inspired
By words of decency and
Candor
At the darkest moment
With campaign tethering on Disaster
Barack Obama stood up
For nation and self
While taking the venom
Out of the words
Of a radical so-called holy man
He led us to reflect
On the dark original sin
That clouds our nation
And our self-deception
As we pretend
We have found repentance
That the dream
Has come at last
When really much must still Be done
Despite our healing attempts And progress
An unspoken fracture remains
It is the drumbeat of the anger
That surges from the soul of The black community
And into the mouth of
Preachers and politicians
New Orleans
Destroyed and forgotten
An impoverished nation
Where the gap
Continues to grow
Between those with hope and Those without
It is the passionate
Recoil of those
Whose dreams are diminished
And for whom opportunity is A raisin in the sun.
2008 Woodie Awards
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