We're on the highway now...
I couldn't run the tv last night late, because my son was sleeping and had to get up for work at 5:30 am. So I was in my office on CNN.com, and my friend was on the phone with me, and that way I could hear the speeches over the phone because she put her phone up to her tv for me. Obama's speech made both of us cry. It felt like he sat America on his knee, and hugged her to his chest, and said, "don't cry, it'll be all right", like a father would with his daughter. It felt like a benediction. It brought me to tears, and I haven't stopped leaking yet.
Especially today when I am hearing the testimonies of some of our brothers of color. One man, age 38, said he had been seated in a restaurant with his mother, where no one would serve them. Another man was telling how it was 40 years ago that he was beaten, bloodied, and left for dead on a bridge.
I mean, we think we have problems with our economy and our wars and everything, but how would you feel if you were overcoming that kind of treatment? I am so enjoying their jubilation. I wish I could have been in that crowd in Chicago and passed out some hugs!
I flicked the channel over to the BBC in America for a moment, and caught this sound bite: "It won't hit them until there are little black girls running around in the White House, that is when it will hit them." I thought that was a terribly insightful comment on our lingering prejudice.
I couldn't be prouder of America, and I sincerely hope that kind of hate-mongering is over.
Especially today when I am hearing the testimonies of some of our brothers of color. One man, age 38, said he had been seated in a restaurant with his mother, where no one would serve them. Another man was telling how it was 40 years ago that he was beaten, bloodied, and left for dead on a bridge.
I mean, we think we have problems with our economy and our wars and everything, but how would you feel if you were overcoming that kind of treatment? I am so enjoying their jubilation. I wish I could have been in that crowd in Chicago and passed out some hugs!
I flicked the channel over to the BBC in America for a moment, and caught this sound bite: "It won't hit them until there are little black girls running around in the White House, that is when it will hit them." I thought that was a terribly insightful comment on our lingering prejudice.
I couldn't be prouder of America, and I sincerely hope that kind of hate-mongering is over.