Amen.

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I usually don't wax political, but on this historic night I feel compelled to do so. This isn't an attack on Republicans, Democrats, or any other political affiliation, but rather a vindication of the words of a great man who came before us, one who knew that he might not live to see his vision come to pass, but knew that there would be a day when it would be so. Tonight, we are better as a people for what has occurred, and while the election was not one of race, we cannot say that race isn't a factor, when a generation ago institutionalized segregation was the law of the land. We have grown so much as a people, and we are all the better for it.

Thusly, in the immortal words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

"And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

I have a dream today!"

T.