So Election Day has come and gone (Thank Goodness!!) and America has a brand new President of the United States: Barack Obama!! Yay!! FYI: I voted for him and I voted early!!!!
The announcement came a wee bit after 11:00 pm. I was asleep, (I spent the day working as an election inspector for Duval County and had been up since 4am) tired from watching endless election night prattle from the talking heads of CNN, CBS, NBC, and ABC when my buddy Ernest woke me up with a text message that read YES WE DID!!!!! I immediately woke up and turned on the TV and learned that history had indeed been made. A Black man would be the next President of the United States of America.
I was stunned. I really, really was. I never thought that I would live to see the day where America would elect an African-American as Leader of the Free World. Before Obama’s improbable run for the White House, I resigned myself to the fact that the closest thing to a Black President that I would see in my lifetime would be watching Dennis Haysbert on “24″ or Chris Rock in Head of State.
I began to cry and laugh all at the same time. I was amazed that I at age 33 was witnessing this. A Black President! This means that I could no longer give that condescending smile to little children who said that they wanted to grow up to be President. This means that I would be telling the truth to my sons when I say that they could be anything they wanted to be in this life. There were NO. MORE. LIMITATIONS!!!!!!! When that realization hit me, I began to sob in earnest. I thanked God right then and there for allowing me to witness such history being made.
Then I wished I had TV One. Ernest told me that Tom Joyner and his morning show crew really turned it out with their coverage. Then after watching every news outlet on TV (except Fox News who really didn’t want to concede that a Black man had actually won the White House) I went to sleep at 4 am, happy that change had come and that hope won.
Author’s Note:This is really short today people, but watch for Kamesa’s Excellent Election Adventure coming soon right along with my Ode to Dennis. Toodles!
