I agree with others that most of us are born into a generation that probably has a greater ability to see Obama as a man and not a skin color than those before us. There have been amazing strides in civil rights over the past 45-50 years, and this is another obvious milestone.
Maybe I'm being melodramatic, but I feel like a different American today. I feel like I live in an America that has put its vote where its mouth is. No more just talking about a country where we all have equality and a chance to be whatever we want to be, this is now a place where not only little white boys can aspire for our most esteemed office.
I was brought to tears last night, not only because my guy won, but because by God, we're really moving beyond all of those ugly things in our past. If you're a 90 year old black person in this country, and you spent the early years of your life treated like a second class citizen, and you had a parent or grandparent that was someone's chattel, does electing Obama make up for that? No, of course not. But I'll be willing to bet that it gives you a hell of a lot of hope that future generations will never have to go through what you did.
It gives me hope that one day this country will elect a qualified woman into its highest office. Women- who weren't even given the right to vote until 1920, well after black men, should embrace this victory from a cultural point of view even if you can't politically. One of the many thinks that Obama inspired in me was the idea that we are a country that is ready to go to the next level.
The people have spoken, and they are ready to move on.
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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
--Eleanor Roosevelt
WHY might there be trouble on the way?? 
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