Let’s just basque in the celebration of history

Literally 20 years ago when Jesse Jackson ran for the presidential nomination I was told that I would never see a Black President in my lifetime…that America wasn’t ready to give the reigns over to a Black man.

Twenty years later I still don’t understand that statement.  America is always ready to be a leader no matter who is leading the country.  How is it that South Africa a nation that had tried to crush the will of the black man since before Ghandi could elect Nelson Mandela before we would even think about electing an African-American.  We are the leaders of freedom and democracy and we should be the one’s leading by example.

I am not a democrat but I want each and everyone of us to bask in the glow of history being made this very day…Tuesday, January 20th, 2009.  Nine years after the turn of the century… history has been made that the American public elected freely an African-American man to the highest office in the free world.

It is a cause for celebration that we have evolved into a real democracy that allows everyone no matter who they are to chase their dreams if they have the determination, patience and intelligence to know what they want…and can keep their eye on the prize.  Barack Obama is a symbol for what Americans can accomplish no matter what the odds.

I have always been proud to be an American and today I am especially proud.  I have put a side my political differences to honor history and to basque in it’s celebratory glow.   God Bless America!