"It's really a question we have to answer--do we remain in our neat little buckets or not? I simply don't know the answer; perhaps our individual cynicism is too great. I'll go with the hope that it is not."

Anyone else notice the similarity between the Obama campaign and three recent teeny-bopper movies: High school musical, Bratz, and Sidney White?

(and I don't mean this as an insult).

In all three of those movies, the kids refuse to be put into their assigned boxes ("science geek" "fashion diva") and fight to break down those buckets to allow each kid to be everything they want to be, and not just their assigned role.

Posted at March 19, 2008 10:51 PM in response to O Drama

Obama speaks for me, too. Maybe he speaks for all of us who know that there is no silo that we can retreat to, that we will always be a minority wherever we are, that our survival depends on alliances formed in the pursuit of our hopes, and the only world where we can be at home is in the multi-voice symphony that is America at its greatest.

I am also Asian, and my children are, as one of them lisped, when she was four, and asked by strangers about her ethnicity, "Well . . . I am half-indian, half-jewish, and all American." The obvious story for us. But, since Obama isn't riding to wins on the backs of the hapa outsiders among us, the message must speak truly many others.

Posted at March 18, 2008 6:46 PM in response to Obama Speaks for Me.