Happy Birthday.

Only one person mentioned Obama, so I'll put it in.

2008 was only 40 years after MLK was killed, so you had a lot of people who'd seen him when he was alive. I knew people who didn't want to watch on election night because they were so fraught. They couldn't even believe he'd gotten as far as he had.

I was working in downtown Brooklyn, in an area with a lot of Black people. The most you saw was the occasional poster, and he was usually part of a group with MLK, Malcolm X, and other icons. I never saw any of the giant flags that Trump lovers fly.

This is another thing I noticed. In the Bush years you'd see a lot of skulls in fashion; in the Obama years there were more peace signs. That's my personal experience in NYC, so take it with a grain of salt.