Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Barack Obama...

...just got elected President. The first black man ever to be in office. It's a fucking landmark, and I'm giddy as a school-girl. Not only because there will undoubtedly be major, MAJOR improvements on so many fronts, but also because so much has been overcome to get to this point. I know that it will take much more for a woman to ever be in office, and I know that social reform is something that I'll be striving to see for my whole life. As long as there is breath in my body, there will be suffering in this world and country that hasn't been analyzed nearly as well as it should be, and people that are crying out for a voice.
I need to be that voice. We all need to be that voice.

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