A DAY I AM SO PROUD TO SEE!
A DAY I AM SO PROUD TO SEE! America wins. Go OBAMA! By Ahrae 11-7-08
I remember when I was 14 my grandmother (my dad’s mom) would always talk to me about how great it was when she heard Martin Luther King Jr. speak. She would say “No man could move a crowd or inspire a community like he did.” I have to admit that I never quite understood what she meant or how she felt until now. I remember when President Elect- Obama announced that he was running for the presidency. I remember how shocked everyone was that he was running because of his “lack of experience.” I am no political mastermind but his message to me was more than just change, for the first time I felt like here was a man saying; “Hey, I don’t have all the answers and I can’t guarantee that my plans will go how I plan, but I will be the best president I can be.” I appreciated and moreover I embraced the honesty and the truth within his words.
When Barak Obama received the democratic nomination I ran out to register to vote, not because he would end up being the first African-American president but because I knew that this was a man that could change our country.
While I was standing in line at my polling location (totally freezing) I realized that what I was about to do was about more than just me, it was about my children, and my grandchildren, and my great grandchildren. I realized that my vote was about how I wanted to live, and how I wanted to be governed, my vote was about the millions of women that fought for me to be able to vote. My vote was about millions of African-American’s that stood up to injustice and sacrificed their lives, their families lives and their freedoms so that I could one day live in a community they could not and so that I could one day be heard when they were silenced. My vote was about standing up and being heard. I will NEVER, EVER not vote. I will make sure that WHATEVER the election I will be heard.
If you are not registered to vote; PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT YOU REGISTER AND VOTE! If you ever think that your vote doesn’t count just remember that once upon a time many of us had no choice and we were silenced. To not vote is to disregard the fight that was fought long before many us were born. I WILL NOT BE SILENCED!
I have to send my congratulations to Barak Obama, Michelle Obama and the entire first family. I have to admit that I take deep pride in knowing that our soon to be President of the United States is of mixed ethnic background (that being African- American and Caucasian) and that the we now have someone in the White House that understands and has heard those voices that have gone unheard for so long. There are something’s that you think you will never see happen in your lifetime but once you do it is so surreal. YES WE CAN! AND YES WE DID!
Hope, History & Change.
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XOXOXO
SHADOWORLD IS THE MOVEMENT!!! WE ARE THE FUTURE…
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