The Times Are A Changin’

04Nov08

There is something kids like better than candy.

Take Halloween.

As soon as the kids, especially the older kids, especially the older Latino kids, heard the Obama swag piled by our door was for their taking, they turned from the candy bowl and grabbed handfuls of loot.

We gave away rally signs by the tens, buttons by the dozens. stickers by the hundreds.

“I LOVE Obama!” they said.

“Obama! Yes!,” they exclaimed. “Cool, thanks!”

They were many years away from voting.

But still, they were such hope against these times.

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