One Year Later...

So it's been a year since I wrote this note on Facebook about the Nov 4, 2008 election. A lot of yall didn't know me back then, but anywho, Barack Obama was declared President-Elect @ 11 pm on 11/4/2008...this is how I felt @ 4:28 am 11/5/2008. See if you feel/felt the same way.



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I'm not ever at a computer long enough to write a note. But I can't sleep and I have this cool new phone that lets me type quickly...

The magnitude of the 2008 Presidential Election won't be fully appreciated by our generation. At least not yet. It is greatly appreciated at the moment...and most likely there will be several mixtapes that mention President-Elect Obama sometime this week.

But I never experienced the genuine HATE that was aimed at my grandmother who grew up in NC in the 40's, or the struggles of my grandfather, an immigrant from Aruba in the 50's.

And I've never been denied a job or paid a lower wage based on the color of my skin the way my parents did growing up in New York in the 60's and 70's

But the day we sit down with our future children (or current children...some of yall despise condoms) and tell them about November 4th, 2008...and there is NO LIMIT to what they can accomplish and NO EXCUSE to not be a SUCCESS...we may begin to fully appreciate what happened.

Or maybe at Thanksgiving dinner 2047, when we listen to our children tell their children what happened...and how their mom or dad was a part of history (HIS STORY...GOD'S STORY)...maybe then, we can fully grasp this ''CHANGE'' concept.

The emotion that we feel/felt...is the greatest joy that a lot of us have ever felt.

But it's nothing compared to the way our grandparents feel...or the way we will feel when we realize all of THIS...whatever ''THIS'' is...led to the beginning of a new era.

The day when EVERY PERSON with an OUNCE of AFRICAN BLOOD went to sleep with a little bit more SWAG than they woke up with.

I'm running out of shit to say and most likely yall won't even read this. But I'll click this ''publish'' button anyway.

Just remember these two things...

I'm not predicting anything bad is gonna happen...but be cautious. Especially in the South.

and...

''This victory is not the change we seek but only an opportunity to obtain the change we seek''...or something like that.