
{"id":3806,"date":"2008-11-06T07:15:31","date_gmt":"2008-11-06T15:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=3806"},"modified":"2008-11-06T07:15:31","modified_gmt":"2008-11-06T15:15:31","slug":"comments-on-the-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2008\/11\/06\/comments-on-the-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Comments on the election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m just so happy about it, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know what to do.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\n<em>\u00e2\u20ac\u201dCommunity organizer Rebecca Clark<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Elated!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\n<em>Marilyn Chaplin of Midway Barbershop when asked how she was feeling Wednesday<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153This shows the Rogers Road community, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcWe can.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 As the nation chanted last night, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcWe can.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Yes, we are able to work for the common cause of peace and prosperity for everyone on the globe.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\n<em>Rogers\/Eubanks community organizer Rev. Robert Campbell<\/em><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153In 1961, four freshmen from North Carolina A&#038;T went to a dime store to ask for service. They weren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t allowed to eat there. That was the same year Barack Obama was born. To think of the changes for good that have taken place in his lifetime is to appreciate the magnificent change in values in America.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\n<em>Civil rights attorney and UNC law professor Daniel Pollitt<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I think it gives hope for all students because of his commitment to education, but what it does for minority students is it gives them a very visible and positive role model, especially for African-American males.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\n<em>Lorie Clark, a high school advocacy specialist with the Blue Ribbon Youth Leadership Institute for Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Democratic Party has now reached into the South and is changing the electoral map for the long run. What we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re doing is creating a new generation of voters in the South who will continue to vote Democratic.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\n<em>Thomas Mills, president of Thomas Mills Communications, a Democratic consulting firm based in Carrboro<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I think this country has already been changed by the fact that so many people came together to make this happen&#8230;.It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not just about us, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s about the world. Democracy actually works. Our hope in democracy has been restored.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\n<em>Sue DeLaney, a doctor with the Wellness Alliance in Carrboro<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I think this could mean a whole change of direction. Heaven knows we need it.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\n<em>State Senator Ellie Kinnaird<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m just so happy about it, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know what to do.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201dCommunity organizer Rebecca Clark \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Elated!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Marilyn Chaplin of Midway Barbershop when asked how she was feeling Wednesday \u00e2\u20ac\u0153This shows the Rogers Road community, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcWe can.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 As the nation chanted last night, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcWe can.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Yes, we are able to work for the common cause&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3807,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3806\/revisions\/3807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}