Prognosticative Polar Express

I love watching Christmas movies, from, “It’s a Wonderful Life”, to, “Die Hard”, “A Christmas Story” to the Rankin & Bass, “Animagic”, stop-motion animated features.

In 2004’s, “The Polar Express”, when the African American young lady receives her punched ticket, the word, lead, is punched out of it. She is not entirely negative, thinking it indicates, “Lead, as in a lead balloon?”, to which the conductor basically replies it means she is to lead, as in be a leader.

The Polar Express‘ star, Tom Hanks grew up in Glenview, Oakland, where I lived for years, and where Harris was born; Harris grew up in Berkeley, where I grew up. I’m not a biggie, like Harris and Hanks, but it’s cool to me that our Vice-President Elect, an exceptional woman, hails from my neck of the woods.

Hanks and Harris are the same age, and I think it’s neat that the young African American person from The Polar Express who’s to become a leader could be considered a positive harbinger of things that have happily ensued: our nation’s first African American and first female Vice President.

I’m also glad that Nona Gaye, born in 1974, played the young African American young lady, in The Polar Express (2004) because her dad, the late Motown star, Marvin Gaye, lost his life in 1984, and sometimes history has a way of making things right.

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