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I have a background similar to the OP and I can't believe it either. As a matter of fact, I was astounded. Remember the thread on RFK saying there might be a black president in 2002? Folks thought he was nuts.
I just wish my mom were still with us. She woulda got a kick out of this.
I've got a whole list. I toasting each and everyone of them on inauguration day.
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I'm still trying to wrap my head around the fact that not only did the US elect and African American to the Presidency of the United States, but elected an African American whose name is Barak Hussein Obama! My god!
As an African American male, who sent part of his youth living under Jim Crow and as a result couldn't; play in the nearest park; who had to walk by a white school in order to get to the "colored" one 6 blocks further away; whose high school had to sue the Catholic Archdiocese so that it could be included in the all white Catholic Athletic League, I am simply astounded....
Many of us, black, brown, red, yellow and white, have finally gotten to the mountain top from which King looked out across at the promised land and its a marvelous sight.
Yes, it brought it all home, seeing the pictures of Jesse Jackson (and Obama's former critic) on election night, weeping at the announcement. The country really needed this on so many levels.
I am so pleased that we voted not because of his race, not in spite of his race but because we were indifferentto his race. We looked at the MAN and saw a leader and a leader that we wanted to follow. Perhaps American has started to grow up and to grow into what we were meant to be.
Yes, it brought it all home, seeing the pictures of Jesse Jackson (and Obama's former critic) on election night, weeping at the announcement. The country really needed this on so many levels.
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Oh geez! It was sickening...
Coming from someone who's devoted so much of his waking life to Obama here in the past few months, that's kinda hard to believe. Heck, I'd figure you'd be happy to still have him around to complain about. 'Cuz otherwise, looks like you wouldn't have anything else to occupy yourself down there, in good 'ol "Plano, TX"!
The election is over. Obama won and there is no controversy, no contested election, no Supreme Court involvement. The best thing anyone can do is adjust to this reality and quit whining.
The ultimate recognition that it was a great moment. Thanks for confirming my thoughts. The sooner neolithic Americans like yourself go on to your much deserved reward the better this nation will be.
I did not vote for B.H. Obama, but now that he will be the Commander in Chief, I want only the best for him and I pray GOD that he makes the right decisions.
Even though Biden is a bleached turd, he did have it correct when he said that this new administration, this new President will be tested like no other in recent times.
I really hope and pray for Obama. He is going to need all the help he can get. The international community is already lining up to take advantage of him, "friends" and "foes" alike, due in large part to his almost complete lack of any real experience, particularly on International Affairs, and defense policy. Here B.H. is a zero, and the enemies of the U.S. (who have NOT given up just because Barry was elected) are going to continue to go after us, and probably with renewed vigor, because, again, they accurately perceive B.H. as weak.
I hope that Pres. Obama realizes (or at least some of his trusted cabinet members realize) what HE and WE are all up against here. On the verge of wining huge battles in the War on Terror, we are suddenly going to stop, drop the ball, and let the terrorists have free reign. (and they will regroup, take a breather, and come after us again, just as under Clinton)
Yes, it is truly amazing that Barak Hussein Obama was elected, on the one hand, but totally understandable on the other.
The MEDIA was TOTALLY in favor of Obama, no doubt about it. The MEDIA did NOT present both sides, they were not fair, they were not impartial, they did not keep an even playing field, and they continually did everything they possibly could to directly sabotage the McCain campaign.
The Obama supporters voted for him based solely on his skin color. If Obama had been a conservative Republican he would still have been elected because the right-center in the U.S. votes more on the issues than on appearances, but because he is a very liberal Democrat he got the support of the entire "hand out" vote, the welfare types, the "black" vote, the trade union types...every dizzy white collage girl with a crush on him and of course the Liberal Controlled Media....etc etc.
All this stacked against McCain who in all fairness avoided going after Obama on all the issues that would have truly hurt Obama's campaign....but that would have been called "racist" in the Liberal media.
McCain did little to go after the Communist Domestic Terrorist Bill Aires, McCain did little to go after the "reverend" Jeremiah "G-D Damn-America" Wright, or Farrakhan, or a whole host of others that would have made Obama look really bad....but McCain did not do it...he was too nice and had too much self respect to take advantage of such silly and nasty people as those that B.H. Obama "intentionally sought out"....
Oh well, he's in...and God help the man...God help us all....
...I fear MORE wars, not less.....and economic depression....because Obama is weak and will waste time on silly socialistic domestic non-"issues" instead of dealing with the more important international issues that affect everything else foreign AND domestic....
Salem Poor,
Denmark Vessey
Nat Turner
Harriet Tubman
Sojourner Truth
Fredrick Douglas
John Brown
Octavius V. Catto
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Abraham Lincoln
U.S. Grant
W.E. B. Du Bois
Thurgood Marshall
Medgar Evers
James Chaney,
Andrew Goodman,
Michael Schwerner
Denise McNair
Cynthia Wesley
Carole Robertson
Addie Mae Collins
Fannie Lou Hamer
Viola Liuzzo
Martin Luther King Jr.
A. Phillip Randolph
Baynard Rustin
Eleanor Roosevelt
Harry Truman
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon Johnson
Robert F. Kennedy
Paul Robeson
All of the African American veterans from the American Revolution to Iraq.
and countless others, this one if for you.
Personally:
Rep points to:
My grandfather who organized the first union for African American railroad workers in Louisiana,
My mom for her work with the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee.
My dad for his work with the Urban League and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference,
My grandmother who in no way would have believed this day could be possible, but supported us all,
Aretha Hailey who gave me my first job registering voters in the South
Thank you for making this possible.
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