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Nov. 5th, 2008 03:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alivemagdoleneObama won.
And that is all there is to say.
Except this. Our neighbors set off fireworks, downtown Baltimore (from television, anyway) looked like New Year's Eve with people laughing and happy and singing and hugging each other and some crying with joy. And this was apparently not an isolated incident, all over the country it looked like this. You can almost feel the happy energy, the hope, both of which we so desperately need.
Also? He's a black man. That's not what won him this election or why so many think he will be one of our greatest presidents and a salve to our tattered nation. He's a black man, our first black president, and that's epically historical and to paraphrase Doris Kearns Goodwin, proof that we are a "show" not just "tell" nation. But you know what? That is absolutely NOT why anyone should have voted for him. And to suggest that's the only reason or the main reason that he's a big deal is almost farcically absurd.
And that is all there is to say.
Except this. Our neighbors set off fireworks, downtown Baltimore (from television, anyway) looked like New Year's Eve with people laughing and happy and singing and hugging each other and some crying with joy. And this was apparently not an isolated incident, all over the country it looked like this. You can almost feel the happy energy, the hope, both of which we so desperately need.
Also? He's a black man. That's not what won him this election or why so many think he will be one of our greatest presidents and a salve to our tattered nation. He's a black man, our first black president, and that's epically historical and to paraphrase Doris Kearns Goodwin, proof that we are a "show" not just "tell" nation. But you know what? That is absolutely NOT why anyone should have voted for him. And to suggest that's the only reason or the main reason that he's a big deal is almost farcically absurd.
