Off-topic (sort of)

Of all the people in America, blacks have always believed in the project called the United States. Always. Not because they are blinded to what is. They, we, see it clearly.

We believe in the project, as someone in today's Washington Post said, because of what it could be, what it should be, and what it apsires to be.

We understand the realism of today. We not only strive for the optimism of tomorrow, we work for it.