November 4, 2008 I walked into the polls in hope that the Next President will be someone who can lead the country. Voting for Barrack Obama was something I thought long and hard about. I went to work at ACS answering phone calls from people who with sprints phones that were mad they couldn’t watch CNN on Sprint Mobile TV. Wishing I was home I watched the coverage on CNN from my Sprint Mobile TV. Lol. Mine Worked. Talking to other African American Women and Men who work at my job from 40’s up to the 60’s years of age. I understood that this wasn’t just an election. Many people fought and died to be able to vote and it was happening a African American Male had everything it took to be the Next United States President.
When the polls came in from California and he won 55 electoral vote I knew that is was here the first African American President. Calling my father mother but most importantly my grandmother who is 80 years old, she was crying and almost couldn’t speak to me then I really realized this is just bigger than Presidency this is History.
My hairs on my arms pricked up and I reflected on what was to come, a Black President a person who’s like me that is the forefront of my race and country. Hearing his speech made me really think of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. “I had a Dream Speech” not because he gave a speech similar to this one in Colorado, but when Dr. King Jr. said he had a “dream that one day little white boys and girls can play together with little black boys and girls”. November 4, 2008 marked the day that a country stood together not just for race or for wealth stood together for the greater good of the country. A decision made not only by the blacks, whites, Spanish’s people it was a decision made by us as a nation.
Was that Dr. King Jr. dream to see an African American Win without any trouble by a landslide.
Still to this Day It was All A Dream..