President-Elect Obama

Well he won. This is delicious on many levels... But I'll just mention two: Love and Pride.

I'm watching the coverage of civil rights activists with tears in their eyes. They are overwhelmed and it makes me love them.

I love them because I'm NOT overwhelmed. Because of those weeping men and women who have been through so much for me, tonight was not revolutionary; it was a manifestation of the reality I assumed would be. I'm fortunate enough to grow up in a time when I think, "Of course a charismatic genius with a killer smile and ambition for days is gonna be President... um he's the best of the lot."

So although I felt weird with everyone ONLY talking about race... I fell in love with those angry motherfuckers that paved the way for me all over again.

But I'm also really proud of US. Because we got together and made a choice that we were going to change shit. It wasn't legislated by Congress (no, I'm not hatin on the Voting Rights Act) It wasn't decreed by the Supreme Court (no, I'm not hatin on Brown v Board); we didn't amend the Constitution (you know I'm not hatin on the 13th Amendment)... All I'm saying is that about a bazillion of us got together, gave five bucks, connected and said, "This is the guy we want. It's gonna be a huge change and some folk are gonna try to stop us... but this is what we want.

Oh, and we're gonna do it with some class."

We then proceeded to blast the electoral map so hard it now looks purple. hee hee. We made the win so massive that no amount of voter supression, cheating, or other sillines was going to deny us.

President-Elect Obama. The possibility of what might happen to our politics gets me excited, but that will have to wait until tomorrow.

Tonight, the love and pride is about all I can handle.

:-P