Lost Time Is Not Found Again: Nov. 5, 2008
Lost Time Is Not Found Again is what the MPS blog crew has been reading today.
+ Heidi Klum and Guitar Hero. You can’t go wrong here. {FanIQ.}
+ Curt Schilling on last night’s election. {38 Pitches.}
+ Allen Iverson is introduced to the Detroit media. {The Hoops Doctors.}
+ Kevin Johnson is the new mayor of Sacramento. {Obsessed With Sports.}
+ Non-sports: Obama newspaper collage. {A Public Flogging.} How Barack did it. {Newsweek.}
Quotable:
“What a historical moment that was last night. … From an African-American standpoint, I watched my people — watched my people — celebrate the not guilty verdict of O.J. Simpson. They were so hungry for a victory of some kind that they celebrated — we celebrated — the verdict of O.J. And I was thinking to myself, ‘Two people are dead. Two people are dead’ Now, I’m not talking about my people, I’m explaining them here. They were just so hungry to say ‘We have a victory.’ And I cringe when I even think about that.
But last night I watched a celebration. A real celebration. A real celebration, and it was a celebration for everybody, and everybody celebrated, and they kept showing this shot, and I was watching, of this little black girl and this little white girl, just sitting there crying together, and I thought, wow. I thought about Martin Luther King and his ‘I Have a Dream’ speech, and I thought about him saying, black kids and white kids playing together. …
Last night we removed all differences and became just one, and I thought that was a beautiful thing. It was just a beautiful thing. I stood here with my kids, we watched it and we cried and we prayed.” – Michael Irvin



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