The Girl Who Never Was by Jan Alexander5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The radical white liberals galling that America’d reached the impossibility of “post-race.” It’s common to note Jan. The kumbaya, “yes we can” talk of bipartisan progress. What a moment in American possibility: the ephemeral days of strangers zip-a-dee-doo-dahing past one another. In her inaugural poem Alexander likened love to light and closed with lines that bespoke the optimism of the occasion: “On the brink, on the brim, on the cusp,/praise song for walking forward in that light.” ![]() Behind her, a platform seated rows upon rows of eminences, including President Barack Obama. THE TRAYVON GENERATION By Elizabeth Alexanderĭressed in an indelible red coat, Elizabeth Alexander stood aloft the National Mall and faced a sea of expectant faces. ![]()
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