What Obama Running For President Means To Me

[Natasha]

What Obama Running For President Means To Me

http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2008/10/what-obama-running-for-president-means.html
Monica Roberts
10/01/2008

We are less than 33 days from Election Day and I'm cautiously optimistic that I will see a historic event take place on November 4.

But this journey for me has been (and still is) a mind blowing, emotional roller coaster ride as a proud, politically aware transgender African-American. I'm saddened that my grandmother Tama isn't here to witness it, but I'm savoring every delicious historical moment as it unfolds.

Almost 400 years after the first Africans arrived here in North America , a man who is the son of a continental African may be on the verge of becoming the first United States president of African descent. And as Dr. King foresaw it, the African-American vote will play an important, if not decisive role in that happening.

[tekla]

To me it means at least a chance that McCain and his idiot choice might just lose.  Beyond that, I don't have much hope.

[RebeccaFog]

To me it indicates that it is possible that people of all shades other than white, just may have a chance.

The fact that Obama is not some rich spoon fed idiot holds meaning too.  But then, I thought it had meaning with clinton too. Boy did that guy turn out to be a cash whore.