The News and Observer has been flying out of downtown newsstands like paper airplanes thanks to the coverage of Tuesday’s Obama win. Out of the elevator this morning stepped an African-American woman clutching six copies. I myself had to grab an extra copy yesterday morning to replace the one Hallie cut up to take to class. That same dispenser was completely empty when I walked by it again at noon. Good thing the N&O printed up 20,000 extra copies.
Yesterday I saw an African-American man walking down Hargett and clutching a freshly-bought paper. On my way home I passed another man who might have walked into traffic he was reading his paper so intensely.
Good to know more people are now engaged. America’s problems didn’t disappear overnight, though. There’s a lot of hard work still to be done.