I realized yesterday would be a day that would be remembered in my children's textbooks and their children's. I wanted to remember exactly how I felt when they announced Barack Obama would be the next president of the United States of America. There are two reasons to celebrate Obama as president.
First,I am excited to have Obama as the next president because I think he is a good man. I think he values families and has similar beliefs as I. I think he wants to change America for the better. I think he will initiate changes that have been long over due. I believe he will help the economy, get health care together, and bring our soldiers home. Mostly, I belief that Obama loves America and will do what he thinks is best for our country, which is all we can ask from a president.
Second, I am proud to live in a country that has forgiven it's past. I am proud to have an African American president. Not so long ago, perhaps in my mother's lifetime, I could have never married my husband. Us being two different races would have made togetherness impossible. I was lucky to grow up in an area of California where I never witnessed racism. I thought it only existed in the most southern parts of Alabama or Kentucky or some extreme confederate state. As I grew up and lived in different parts of the country I realized racism is alive and well through out all parts of the world. As my daughter was born I worried about any trials she would go through because of being what I like to call a "mixed plate". I notice the looks I sometimes get when I am with my husband and I hope those looks are gone by the time by daughter can notice them. I am filled with patriotism to have the figure head of the country as a symbol that anything is possible and America is the place dreams come true.
God bless Barack Obama and how he commands this country!
God bless the United States of America!
