Q celebrates Obama
Like his friend Bono, Quincy now has a column running in major newspapers. But whereas Bono chose to reminisce about their late, great mutual friend, Frank Sinatra, in his debut column for The New York Times, Quincy opted to focus on President Barack Obama in his first column for Tribune Newspapers. It was published yesterday (January 19), Martin Luther King Day, in the chain’s papers, including the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune.
“Like many Americans and citizens of the world, on the morning of Nov. 5, 2008, I awoke with a renewed sense of purpose,” Quincy wrote in the opening of the column, headlined “Our future of hope.” “The night before I had seen an event I could never have imagined, the election of an African-American as president of the United States of America. It’s true — if you live long enough, anything is possible.”
In the body of the column, Quincy went on to recount both his personal struggles and triumphs and those faced by African Americans through the years before concluding: “America still has a lot of work to do with regard to race, but it gives me great comfort to know that every American boy and girl (thank you, Hillary Clinton) from here on can grow up believing that ‘one day I might be president,’ and it won’t be an unthinkable fantasy.
God bless you, President Obama. The hopes of the nation are with you.”
You can read Quincy’s complete column here and Reuters’ coverage of the column here.
Below we’ve reposted Quincy’s get-out-and-vote message in support of Obama released on the eve of the historic election.