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shannon_aThere have been fireworks going off in Berkeley for an hour or two. I keep hearing yelling and screaming from nearby apartments too. I can't remember there ever being this much excitement following an election, even in Berkeley. Maybe 1992? I'm not sure; I wasn't living in a very residential area at the time.
I expected to see a black President in my lifetime. I mean, if I have my way, I have a lot of life yet, and segregation started to end almost a decade before I was born. But I surely didn't expect to see it this soon.
I think that Obama's mere election is going to do a lot to heal some racial rifts in this country, that it's going to start to end the healing from slavery, from segregation. It's not an end, but it's a wonderful, wonderful start.
I expected to see a black President in my lifetime. I mean, if I have my way, I have a lot of life yet, and segregation started to end almost a decade before I was born. But I surely didn't expect to see it this soon.
I think that Obama's mere election is going to do a lot to heal some racial rifts in this country, that it's going to start to end the healing from slavery, from segregation. It's not an end, but it's a wonderful, wonderful start.