Today, my co-workers and I gathered around an archaic television set in our conference room and watched Barack Obama become the 44th president of the United States of America. It was totally awesome (in the original meaning of the word -- not the way teeny boppers and my almost-5-year-old use it). I was a huge goosebump for the entire duration of the ceremony and his speech. Standing before the country was the epitome of the American Dream. He is what my mother always said people of color could be. He is what Dr. Martin Luther King foresaw when he said that one day Black people would be judged by the content of their character and not the color of their skin. Today, I was truly proud to be a person of color and an American.
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