I turned 35 at midnight tonight, about the exact same time Obama began his acceptance speech in Chicago. I couldn’t have received a better birthday gift. I will never forget this night. You should have seen the love and camaraderie being displayed in New York, between and among complete strangers who like me just couldn’t stop smiling. If a night like tonight doesn’t make one proud to be an American, and hopeful for the future, I don’t know what could.
Just a quick note to to finish up before I TRY to go to bed tonight (the adrenaline may not let me), I wanted to post one of the more poignant signs I saw tonight, displayed at a Obama rally in New Jersey and shown during one of the local news reports. It read (with a little bit of editing):
Rosa sat,
so Martin could walk,
so Barack could run,
so our children could fly.
I’ll obviously never be able to understand the African-American experience, but I thought that was just beautiful poetry.
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