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As I write these words, big fat cathartic tears are rolling down my cheeks, and goosebumps are covering me.
Something's changed. I can feel it.
Even though I voted for Cynthia McKinney, I am absolutely delighted that Barack Hussein Obama has been elected.
Not because he's a Democrat -- I happen to think that the Dems as a party are just as corrupt as the GOP, bought and paid for by big corporations and the Military-Industrial Complex. And certainly not because I agree with many of his political positions, because I emphatically do not.
What strikes me this morning is that, for the first time in over a decade, I'm actually feeling hopeful about the country I was born in.
My gods, we as a people CAN change!
Our conception of what "American" is has changed. When this country was founded, a person like Obama would have been a slave, counted as only 3/5 of a person.
Now, a man of African descent has been elected President. Wow. I never thought I would actually live to see the day.
The problems of race in this country are not over. Not by a long shot.
But our country, founded on slavery, racism, and genocide, has finally reached a place where it can see that we are not a "white" nation. We still have to come to a place where we recognize that we are not a male, Christian, heterosexual nation. We still have tremendous issues of class, poverty, justice, and violence to overcome.
But last night, progress was made.
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union..." reads the first line of our Constitution.
We've just become a little more perfect. Progress towards that perfection CAN be made. There is room for hope.
Thank you, America, for restoring a little bit of my faith in you. Thank you for growing up.
Something's changed. I can feel it.
Even though I voted for Cynthia McKinney, I am absolutely delighted that Barack Hussein Obama has been elected.
Not because he's a Democrat -- I happen to think that the Dems as a party are just as corrupt as the GOP, bought and paid for by big corporations and the Military-Industrial Complex. And certainly not because I agree with many of his political positions, because I emphatically do not.
What strikes me this morning is that, for the first time in over a decade, I'm actually feeling hopeful about the country I was born in.
My gods, we as a people CAN change!
Our conception of what "American" is has changed. When this country was founded, a person like Obama would have been a slave, counted as only 3/5 of a person.
Now, a man of African descent has been elected President. Wow. I never thought I would actually live to see the day.
The problems of race in this country are not over. Not by a long shot.
But our country, founded on slavery, racism, and genocide, has finally reached a place where it can see that we are not a "white" nation. We still have to come to a place where we recognize that we are not a male, Christian, heterosexual nation. We still have tremendous issues of class, poverty, justice, and violence to overcome.
But last night, progress was made.
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union..." reads the first line of our Constitution.
We've just become a little more perfect. Progress towards that perfection CAN be made. There is room for hope.
Thank you, America, for restoring a little bit of my faith in you. Thank you for growing up.
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