Connections

One of our family of readers questioned why she would come to this blog and see an entry about the American presidential election.

Tennis is a global sport on the verge of some major change. Our nation's historic election is a global event ushering in major change. Look what I said about Tsonga's victory in France last Sunday. Look what I said about that race car driver. You think these things are unrelated?

They are not.

The more black and brown and red and yellow people believe that they can become anything they dream, anything at all, the better we will all be. Future world No. 1's in forgotten parts of the globe can envision winning Wimbledon. Do you think Barack Obama could exist without Althea Gibson and Arthur Ashe?

The top WTA women, including two black daughters of the ghetto, are duking it out in Doha, a Middle Eastern center of the oil industry and host of the largest Asian Games in history.

These things are not unrelated.

We'll be back to our regularly scheduled program in a minute.

In the meantime, I rejoice in what this nation has achieved. The American Civil War has ended. Finally. I look forward to doing my part to reconstruct her glory.