Photos, Election Night, Lola’s, Detroit

Here are some photos that Marian took on election night at Lola’s restaurant in Detroit, along with some photos the other customers took of us. Marian is the guy in the white shirt and black leather blazer. Gerald is the handsome dude in the white apron … he’s the headwaiter and host at Lola’s. The man in the blue and white striped shirt is the person I quote in my op-ed piece for The Times as saying that Obama’s election made him want to have a child because he finally believed that it was possible for an African American to grow up and lead not just a black American life, but a normal American life. His father is George, also known as the man in the porkpie hat, whom I quote as saying that Obama’s election might give Detroit the psychological uplift it needs. (George ought to know. In addition to running a string of art galleries in Detroit, Chicago and NYC, he holds a PhD in psychology from U of M.) That’s his family you’ll see in one of the photos. And the guy in the Obama/MLK/Mandela/Malcolm t-shirt is Reggie, who was our waiter on election night. Anyone I haven’t identified is someone whose name we didn’t get, caught up as we were in the spirit of the celebration.