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Yes, We Can

Started by Shana A, November 05, 2008, 09:45:41 AM

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November 05, 2008, 09:45:41 AM Last Edit: April 06, 2009, 11:14:20 AM by Nichole
Yes, We Can
Posted November 5, 2008

http://radnichole.wordpress.com/2008/11/05/yes-we-can/

Just about 8 p.m. we all gathered around this 21-inch screen as Katie Couric told us about the election. We watched as New England, Pennsylvania, New York and finally Ohio went blue on the screen. Even then, although my home state, Tennessee, and other states in the former Confederacy turned red, keeping John McCain alive for a bit longer, I could feel tears rising behind my eyes.

At eleven California, Oregon, Washington and Hawaii went blue and what had been unthinkable two years ago became true: Barack Obama would be President of the United States. Then the tears streamed down my face. The news coverage showed me a sea of people in Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois, screaming and waving flags and campaign-signs. The coverage showed a huge gathering in the temple of Civil Rights, Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, and a celebration at the student center at Howard University in D.C.
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde
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