My God... its happened!!!

I have lived to see a person of color become the President of the United States. Last night while watching this monumentous occassion with my extended family I thought to myself, " My God,this is happening... A black man will be the president of the United States!!!!" I felt several difference things in this realization, that one, I was alive to witness this, secondly that my grandmother was alive to witness this, and that everything that my family and my people as a whole throughout the world have conquered through with anguish, frustration, sadness, death to fight for this one moment that one of us stands as the Commander and Chief of the free world.

This moment is bigger than anyone can consciously imagine. This is change as it is meant to be defined. For the first time in my life I am honored to be apart of a country that will not be healed over night of discrimination because a black man is now the president but a country that beleives that change and hope for a better America is possible if we all acknowledge that we are all human beings that need love, support, and the ability to respond openly and honestly to each other to make this world as it was intended to be "for the people and by the people".

We ALL made this happen yesterday, not just black people or white folks that like black people. But all of us that beleived that we needed to first excercise our right to vote as citizens, secondly, beleiving that change was needed in this country and that only we were to be held accountable for the next four years of our existence, and as a result risk the chance of distroying ourselves if allowing the same, inconsistent, counterproductive influence to run our country. Now, I'm not saying that Obama will get it right, or that the world will change in an instant because of this new leader, but I will say without a shadow of a doubt that I have never been more excited about my future and the future of my younger relatives, friends and family as I am at this very moment.

About a few months ago I wrote a blog using words to identify myself it brings me great pleasure and honor to add to this list AMERICAN. Aside from Obama winning the greatest moment of my life today, at this very moment is realizing that


I CAN DO ANYTHING.