Hope, a brighter future

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What a process, we had two incredible candidates that have surely inspired millions.

In my neighborhood there is an elderly black woman who I talk with often. Seeing her emotion when discussing the possibility of an Obama presidency is something I wish everyone could experience. Listening to her talk of her youth and living through the civil rights movement, her feelings of being unrepresented by a political party that she has supported since she has been allowed to vote, and her hope that she will see a black man elected president in her lifetime is truly inspiring.

It is easy to forget that there are Americans alive today that lived in a time when interracial marriage was against the law, and we had entire communities turn a blind eye to lynchings. Many of us or our parents lived through the farce that was separate but equal and watched on television black men and women shot with fire hoses for having the courage to eat in diners that were for whites only. This is an America of the tuskegee experiment, where black men were lied to and denied treated to study the effects of the progression of syphilis. This is an America where the Ku klux klan was given free reign to abuse and terrorize communities. This is an America where blacks were reluctant to express themselves articulately for fear of being condemned as an 'uppity nigger.' This is an America where an entire population of our country was segregated to the back of buses or in hidden in separated areas of restaurants as if they were something to be embarrassed of. And now, this is an America where a black man has a legitimate chance of being the leader of our nation, of representing the American people to countries across the world. This is an America where the color of your skin or your sex no longer disqualifies you from the loftiest of ambitions, an America where dreams do not have to be tempered by the harshness of reality or cynicism of the elite. This is an America I am proud of. We must not deny our past, but we can change the future.

I think it is important to take a minute to recognize the implications of this primary and consider, win or lose in November, how this campaign will effect the the futures of men and women across the country.

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