I don’t really even have words.
I am so happy.
This is where I should be talking about the fact that we’ve done it, we’ve signaled changed, we’ve succeeded in getting the best candidate into the white house. We’re going to get things moving in the right direction in this country- in the world.
But all I can think is “Oh my God, we have our first black president.“
It’s not why he had my vote, of course, being as liberal as I am, but it is all I can dwell on right now.
I never thought I’d see it.
I never thought my children would see it.
My grandparents never thought the same.
Yet here they are, elated to have watched firsthand this country come from this:
to this:
I’ve never seen them so elated in all of their lives.
Now, it’s not so far fetched for a little black kid to believe that they can be the P.O.T.U.S. one day.
Wow.
I’m on a black power cloud right now.
And I, along with every other black person in the world right now, totally deserve to be.
But, in the same stream of consciousness, I am so terrified.
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