Happy Feelings
I'd be remiss if I didn't blog today. I'm not a particularly political creature. Political preference is a personal thing. But last night was so much more than politics.
The history of our country is not subjective. It was stolen from the people who discovered it and built on the backs of slave labor. We asked for other country's poor, huddled masses while we discriminated against existing citizens.
But last night represented another giant leap forward in our country's evolution. Race didn't matter. For once, race honestly didn't matter and that is a significant shift in our country's mindset.
Last night felt like last call for all the small-minded, bigoted folks who'd rather focus on a person's skin color than their values, morality, what's in their heart and their common experiences with others who call themselves Americans.
With a middle name like Hussein...
With his skin color dark enough to confirm that part of his bi-racial heritage was black...
Barack Obama won.
The world I write about in my books, where characters are friends regardless of race or background, is the world I grew up in. It's the world my daughters are growing up in. I realize there are places where that heterogenous vibe is non-existent, where people fight it...but maybe not for long.
Obama's own words sum up this election well - “young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled — Americans who sent a message to the world that we have never been a collection of Red States and Blue States: we are, and always will be, the United States of America."
That's what many have been striving for all along.
As we continue to, I wish us happy feelings and no one can say it better than these dudes...
The history of our country is not subjective. It was stolen from the people who discovered it and built on the backs of slave labor. We asked for other country's poor, huddled masses while we discriminated against existing citizens.
But last night represented another giant leap forward in our country's evolution. Race didn't matter. For once, race honestly didn't matter and that is a significant shift in our country's mindset.
Last night felt like last call for all the small-minded, bigoted folks who'd rather focus on a person's skin color than their values, morality, what's in their heart and their common experiences with others who call themselves Americans.
With a middle name like Hussein...
With his skin color dark enough to confirm that part of his bi-racial heritage was black...
Barack Obama won.
The world I write about in my books, where characters are friends regardless of race or background, is the world I grew up in. It's the world my daughters are growing up in. I realize there are places where that heterogenous vibe is non-existent, where people fight it...but maybe not for long.
Obama's own words sum up this election well - “young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled — Americans who sent a message to the world that we have never been a collection of Red States and Blue States: we are, and always will be, the United States of America."
That's what many have been striving for all along.
As we continue to, I wish us happy feelings and no one can say it better than these dudes...
posted by Paula at 8:45 AM
1 Comments:
"Happy Feelings" indeed. Last night was an incredible historical moment for our country, and my son and I were in awe and so proud to have experienced it in OUR lifetime--in our lifetime! How powerful is that? Last night the world witnessed "change" and I cried along with many others who felt the significance of that moment in history. Last night was like a breath of fresh air. =)
~Deborah Copeland, Author
The Boogie Down Clique Novels
www.latimarhigh.com
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