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Details: Obama Wins 11.7.08 Oh yes we did show up and vote. Hope did win on Tuesday night and this is a new day for America and myself. We waited in lines and helped people who were waiting and knocked on doors and made phone calls. We text messaged and e-mailed, we marched, donated and prayed. Hell yes, we did turn out in record numbers to vote. The racism and sexism that got flung out there, although painful and often shocking has been necessary to confront and to talk about. I’m grateful to be a witness to history and to see the Civil Rights movement express itself so powerfully by the election of our first African American President. When Obama took Pennsylvania I gasped and hollered knowing that the spirits of the 1963 March on Washington, the March on Selma, Martin Luther King’s last speech forty years ago, the lines of first-time voters in South Africa to vote for Nelson Mandela were with us. That oozy heavy film from eight years under the Bush administration is falling off. I hadn’t even realized how exhausted I have been from the betrayal of everything that I value and that makes me feel proud to be an American. The collective humiliation of our citizenry has been relentless but so has the mass organizing and sustained struggle. Seeing Oprah and Jesse Jackson crying in the crowd estimated at one hundred and twenty-five thousand in Grant Park mirrored my personal experience of cheering and crying in Monticello, NY with two hundred neighbors. It is stunning that a democratic country has such low voter turnout because of disenfranchisement, voicelessness and invisibility but in this election there was an eighteen percent higher voter turnout. In Ohio eight hundred thousand, yes 800,000 more people voted. Florida even went blue. Just as the legal barriers that made it possible for us to have an African American President were passed in 1965 but it took many years of struggle for the psychological barriers to be broken that have now in this 21st century enabled us to have our first African American President we will need to continue the fight for the rights of the LGBT community and others allowing the transformation towards human rights to evolve. Barack Obama Launches A New Website, change.gov, where you can share your story of the campaign, of election night and your ideas for the future of America. Amazing, am I dreaming?
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