It has everything. It is the perfect San Francisco story:
1) lesbians
2) lesbians kissing
3) black woman on public transportation
4) morally superior guilt over the passing of Prop 8 - by someone who didn't vote for it
5) morally superior guilt over slavery - by someone who wasn't alive when slavery was legal
6) self-righteous acceptance of personal guilt for acts committed by others
7) morally pretentious apology to lesbians for acts never committed by apologist
8) morally pretentious apology to blacks for acts never committed by apologist
9) self-serving, cathartic "communication" about feelings...
10) ...with strangers of both a different race and sexual orientation!
11) the shared Cult of Barack Obama, the Messiah
12) there are no men involved; there are no white heterosexual women involved.
Seriously. Pity me.
On the morning after the election, Kristin Rothballer, 36, who lives in San Francisco, kissed her female partner goodbye on the train while commuting to work. A black woman who sat down next to her turned and said she was sorry that Proposition 8, the amendment to ban gay marriage in the state, looked like it was going to pass.
"We grabbed hands," Ms. Rothballer recalled. "And I said, 'Well, I really want to congratulate you because we have a black president and that's amazing.' "
"Our conversation then almost became about the fact that we were having the conversation," she said.
Something moved her to apologize to the black woman for slavery.
"For two strangers riding a train to Oakland to have that conversation about race, it wouldn't have been possible if Obama hadn't been elected," she said. "I always felt open with my colleagues, but to say to a stranger on the train, 'Hey, I'm sorry about slavery,' that just doesn't happen."
*Okay, it might have been. It's not like I read it...
The Gunslinger
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