“My Presdient’s Black, My Lambo’s Blue, and I’ll be damned if my rims ain’t to” is a verse taken straight from Young Jeezy’s album entitled the “Recession”.
Yeah, the quote might sound a bit ignorant but, for a new generation of voices that will now be heard, it has become the anthem of ’08.
I stood and witnessed with my very own eyes on November 4,2008, in a Marriot presidential suite downtown raleigh Barack Obama winning the election.
Not only winnning, but demolishing the Republican Party in the process. The world witnessed something that no one in a million years could imagine.
A man of color stepping into a seat of authority that has been strictly gaurded by a white race. According to the CNN newsroom “Film Director Spike Lee who is a brooklyn native, made it known that he flew from brooklyn after voting at P.S.42 to Chicago just to hear the first black President of the United States speak”.
To hear the man speak was something that sent chills through my nikes. It sent Shaw University Students running downtown raleigh to celebrate in front of a light projected Obama banner between morgan and wilmington. I myself took part in the festivities by video taping everything,as I stood on top of a taxi car.
When asking the cab driver how he felt that people were standing on his car he replied “I am from africa, and this is amazing, I dont care about the car I can buy another one”. I joined the mob as they ran to Capital Grounds to gather around the Sir William Statue. The highlight of the night was when we sung “Lean on Me”, and to just see the people of all colors gather around in to sing in unison.
November 4,2008 marked the day my life changed for ever. It was the day that I became a witness for the next generation of people to say that I David Andrew took part in history.
“And I love it”- Young Jeezy