Well, we just never know what we will be handed. It was a great surprize, I was hoping, I had faith in this country, and I still had some doubt. Obama was elected. How utterly exciting, thrilling, and moving. What does this mean? As Maya Angelu said, " We have finally grown up" or something along those lines. I am so proud of America for having the balls to elect a young black senator. I had never seen anything like this in my life, the only thing I can compare it to was the infatuation we as Americans, and the world for that matter had with The Kennedys. It is that kind of a feeling. I remember being in junior high school, my teacher got a phone call, she was crying....crying? in school....a person of authority? in front of everyone? God it had to be terrible. We were let out of school, and I ran around the corner to my Grandma's house, feeling very uneasy and wierd. When I came in the door my grandmother was watching TV and crying....President Kennedy had been shot...They showed Jackie in her pink suit blood soaked....it was shocking. I'll never forget that. So the point I am going to make here is, you judge things in your life by things that happen in History. I can't even fathom what this means to a poor black child in Kenya to see Obama elected president. It might give him the strength to just be able to dream of his future. It will be the start, I hope, of a much more hopeful and decent world. Yes, everyone does want change! Thanks America for voting, and for having the balls to dream!
08 November 2008
Obama has been elected!
Well, we just never know what we will be handed. It was a great surprize, I was hoping, I had faith in this country, and I still had some doubt. Obama was elected. How utterly exciting, thrilling, and moving. What does this mean? As Maya Angelu said, " We have finally grown up" or something along those lines. I am so proud of America for having the balls to elect a young black senator. I had never seen anything like this in my life, the only thing I can compare it to was the infatuation we as Americans, and the world for that matter had with The Kennedys. It is that kind of a feeling. I remember being in junior high school, my teacher got a phone call, she was crying....crying? in school....a person of authority? in front of everyone? God it had to be terrible. We were let out of school, and I ran around the corner to my Grandma's house, feeling very uneasy and wierd. When I came in the door my grandmother was watching TV and crying....President Kennedy had been shot...They showed Jackie in her pink suit blood soaked....it was shocking. I'll never forget that. So the point I am going to make here is, you judge things in your life by things that happen in History. I can't even fathom what this means to a poor black child in Kenya to see Obama elected president. It might give him the strength to just be able to dream of his future. It will be the start, I hope, of a much more hopeful and decent world. Yes, everyone does want change! Thanks America for voting, and for having the balls to dream!
