Filed under: American Elections 2008, History, Posted by TA, Society | Tags: Canada, inauguration, Martin Luther King, Nova Scotia, Obama, Pulitzer Prize, quote, reverend, Rosa Parks, sentence
A day after Obama’s inauguration I was at a coffee shop drinking some tea and reading the daily newspaper. Amidst all the nonsense, frivolity, excess and repetition of so many quotes, wishes and shenanigans there was this incomparable sentence by a man from Nova Scotia, Canada. He said:
“Rosa Parks sat down so King could walk. King walked so Barack could run. Barack ran so all of us can fly”.
Rev. Elias Mwamba Mutuale
Mr. Mutuale, the spectacular connection of your words created what I’d call the most original and creative post-Obama inauguration sentence. For at least one sentence in life you managed to break the line of genius. I don’t know you, never heard of you and will probably never hear again, but if there was a one-sentence-wonder Pulitzer Prize for the average citizen you’d be the winner by far.
Angel and Tiggs 