"Good Crazy"

Ta-Nehisi Coates,"The Man of Tomorrow," Washington Post, 9 November, calls attention to this clip. On 4 March 2007, when Barack Obama was to speak at historic Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church in Selma, Alabama, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's Dr. Joseph Lowery preceded him in the pulpit. This was at a time in the Democratic primaries when many of Lowery's peers in the civil rights movement, including John Lewis and Andrew Young, believed that Obama's campaign was"just crazy." Lowery saw a distinction that makes a difference:
Twenty months later,"good crazy" seized the land. Now, it's time to get serious and get busy.