New President, New Era.

So it's Thursday November 6th, Obama has been the President Elect for 2 days and it's a pretty awesome feeling knowing that we have an African American President. Let me star off by saying that I voted McCain, when I got back to my school I watched the election with my room mate and it soon became very clear that Obama was going to win I wasn't too disappointed though. After CNN unofficially announced that Obama was the President elect My room mate and I went to one of the dorms where there was a huge celebration going on outside of, it was amazing people were singing and dancing and just proud to be American, I don't think people have been this proud to be American since 911. I hope that this pride continues to grow because it sure has felt like there hasn't been much to be proud of if you were American. So after the cops broke up the party (Which sucks because no one was being destructive they were just celebrating) I went back to my room to watch our soon to be new President give his speech, this is what really got to me. It was a very powerful emotional speech full of promises of a better tomorrow, the cameras would show the crowd and many of them were crying and then they showed a shot of Jesse Jackson crying, I am not a huge fan of his and personally think he is kind of a douche but when they showed him crying there was so much emotion coming out of him that I knew in a million years that I would never be able to experience. Here's a man who has devoted his whole life to the advancement of black people and their rights as citizens and he has lived to see an African American elected as President, if you had asked him 3 years ago if he thought that could happen I'm sure his honest answer would have been "no".
So I suppose the whole point of this article is to say that something got to me that night when I saw all those people crying, many of whom were people on my campus who if you saw walking down the street you would probably think they were incapable of crying, it got to me and I although I may not agree with some of Barack Obama's stances on some issues I am excited and happy that he is going to be our new President and I think that he is what our country needs.