The Bishop of North Carolina, the Rt Revd Michael Curry, said on Wednesday: “This is a day that I honestly never dreamed I would see. I think about my grandmother, who was the daughter of a sharecropper here in North Carolina. My ancestors were slaves here. My daddy went to jail so folk could vote.
“My great-aunt Callie was a Sunday-school teacher at Sixteenth Street Baptist chapel where the little girls were killed in 1960. Somehow, all the things that people did without knowing how it was going to turn out helped to make this moment possible.
“But they never dreamed this. Americans have said what we want to be: a country for all. That was the American dream from the beginning. God blesses us sometimes, in spite of ourselves, and, every once in a while, something happens that says that dream is real, and don’t give up on it for America, and ultimately for the whole world.”
For those of you who follow it, Eugene Sutton, mentioned in this article, will be on PBS religion and ethics weekly this evening.
What will really be wonderful is when we no longer make these distinctions…when we are all color blind…seeing a person simply as a person…and interestingly it is often when people point out their differentness that problems arise…such as in the whole gay movement…they were doing just fine until they decided to make it an issue…hopefully all this will make our brothers and sisters of color feel empowered, honored so they no longer see themselves as different, but as simply fellow humn beings…