Barack Obama - President Elect of USA
When I try to blog about our win, about Barack Obama becoming our President elect, I simply cannot come up with any words. I well up with emotion and struggle to think of anything to say.
It is not only because he is Black. Not just because we have come this far. But also that America has surprised me. I never thought in my lifetime I would see this happen, and certainly not on the first go. I figured the first Black candidate would lose first.
America stepped up, and this has humbled me. This is so because I didn’t believe in it’s people.
While I truly believe Obama is the right person for the job, I am not one to get deep into the mix of politics. It is the social temperature that fascinates me, and he represents a new way of thinking. A more enlightened approach is why I voted for him. Because he looks forward. Because he wants to evolve to a better place, and he seems to believe we can live there. He believes in a country I have trouble believing in. This is an absolute must in a leader – the ability to inspire love of country and, dammit, he almost inspires me to believe in mine.
Quite an accomplishment.
I don’t think there will be drastic political changes overnight, of course not. Things may not even change much at all. But socially, things have already changed. At the very least, they have within me.
