I'm sorry you didn't live to see it.
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Update: Sam Cooke's great-nephew, Erik Greene, author of Our Uncle Sam: The Sam Cooke Story From His Family's Perspective, weighs in with this comment:
Sam didn't live to see the vision in his song played out, but I know he's smiling anyhow.