Last night, our country elected Barack Obama to our highest governmental office. You may agree with his views, or you may disagree with him. I tend to agree with him more often than not. But no matter what one's political persuasions may be, I think that one has to look at what just happened with a certain degree of awe.Until last night, we were a country that, over our entire 200 year history, had exclusively been led by white males. This is a country that, for all its goodness and high ideals, was also built upon a foundation of slavery, discrimination, and bigotry. But now, overnight, we are also a country with a President Elect who is a black man.
There are only a few moments in your life when you know that a massively important, historic event has just occurred that forever changes the world around you. Last night was one of those events. Paige is going to grow up in a world in which the concept of a black U.S. President isn't a pipe dream, isn't unusual, and isn't even remarkable. It will be old news. Uninteresting. Normal.
That's amazing.
-dad
2 comments:
Glad you helped put Pennsylvania and thus the nation over the top for Barack. Mom, dad and I downed a bottle of champagne in his honor on election night. What an amazing day after weeks of nervousness that McCain/Palin would be elected.
I'll be excited to tell our next child that they were born with Barak Obama as president. As for Paige, well...sorry.
The Urban Dictionary has coined a new term, the Obama Baby: “A child conceived after Obama was proclaimed President by way of celebratory sex, or any baby born under Barack Obama’s term(s).”
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