combo breaker
So I guess I should say something about our first black president and whatnot. As a black man myself, I suppose I should be shouting loud enough to deafen half of East St. Louis right now. A lot of time and heart has been spent on discussing the pivotal nature of this election for black people in general and black youth in particular, so I won't touch on that here. I feel, however, a lot more...sober than I expected to after the results came in last night. No, not for that reason. It's hard to explain. I've read countless stories about people being moved to tears by the victory, but no such thing happened to me. Not by a long shot. I'm not thrilled by Obama's victory so much as relieved - this was the natural result when dealing with a public that finally decides to wake the fuck up up after showing Bush the Younger up their own asses for almost a decade. I can only hope that Obama's presidency is as much a repudiation of Bush's reign as the polling results appear to desire. With that said, I'm going to steal a page from Greenwald's book and say that on a practical level, the immediate best thing about all of this comes in the form of a Supreme Court that doesn't run the risk of being packed with Scalia-esque luddites. The importance of this election cannot be stressed enough and I need everyone reading this entry to understand that just because I'm not outwardly jubilant doesn't mean I'm anything less than extremely satisfied at the result.