Thursday, November 6, 2008

A prediction (essentially) comes true

"There's no question that in the next 30 or 40 years,
a Negro can also achieve the same position that my brother has..."
— Robert F. Kennedy, May 1961

8 comments:

CiaoBella! said...

WOW!!!

Anonymous said...

Woah.

Beachbum said...

Cool. Thanks for the reminder.

Now, any predictions out there for our same sex partners getting their rights?

hahamommy said...

He said that on the day I was born! It took exactly my lifetime thus far ::::chills::::

Gil an Og said...

Creeepy....but I wasn't alive then, so it carries no weight. Everyone knows the world didn't REALLY start until I was born.

Penta Mom said...

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/kennedy.asp

The prediction as written is bone-chilling, isn't it? Apparently it wasn't quite right....but close enough to be considered a prediction of sorts in my books!

Ronnie said...

Oops. Thanks, Shonna! I pulled the quote from Snopes, but obviously I pulled it from the wrong part of their page. Duh.

For posterity: I've corrected the quote in the blog post.

Ronnie said...

Sorry, Diana, the correction wipes out the coincidence with your birthday.