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UPDATE!
Ok. I get it. It hit me this morning. The importance of this election for US, not the U.S. but US.  It hit me while riding the elevator up to my office filled with a couple of  suit and tie white guys going on about the election. One guy asks another if he'd voted. The guy replies with something like" no but my tri state area doesn't need my vote to win."  The other guy: " *sigh* Yeah its pretty much been decided already". They both shake their heads in a defeated and utterly disgusted manner and carried on about how the winner (Obama) was already picked and it didn't matter how they voted and that they wanted this whole thing to be over with. It was almost as if they were saying if this nigger wins it will be like having monkeys running the nation. Mind you I'm standing in the same elevator. I guess they figured since I had on sneaks and headphones and I was of course one of them I wouldn't pick up on the condescending undertone of the conversation. Right there at that moment, I got it.  Obama running means a lot to African Americans. We were brought to this place against our will, stripped of our pride, forced to live in a racist, biased society, have and continue to be beaten and neglected but yet and still we rise and have risen to the point of having a black man that we may be calling president tomorrow.  We've come from the bottom and have raised to this!!!
This man is helping every little black boy or girl with dreams of becoming the next doctor, lawyer or president pick their heads up higher, work harder and strive for better. Whether or not he does what he's promising will be left to the powers that be in the near future but him making it this far is a feat in itself.  I did vote.  Plan B worked like a charm, there were people there but the line was nothing like it was this morning.  The energy was extremely high.  Young people, old people, parents with their kids etc.  I didn't have any problems although my mom had to show me what to do because this was my first time voting lol. 

I am still skeptical about the whole thing.  Like I said who knows what will happen once the new president gets into office but I love what  Barack Obama and this election represents.  Dare I say it...CHANGE.