This is not the time to talk about the relief we feel that our Constitution will be restored, or to demand that the criminals in this administration be brought to justice; it’s not the time to talk about solving the country’s current desperate problems, or even to dream about the future progress we can now make.

It’s time to reflect with awe and wonder at the momentousness of this event — an African American will be the 44th President of the United States of America.

This is a time to reflect on the elderly woman who collapsed into a chair in tears after casting her ballot, because she never thought she’d live to vote for a black man for President.

It’s about the 109 year old daughter of a slave (her father was emancipated when he was 12), who was granted the boon of living long enough to see a black man elected President.

It’s about the veterans of the civil rights movement of the 60s breaking down in tears, and young women falling to their knees, because they never thought they would see this happen in their lifetimes.

It’s about the hundreds of thousands of whites, blacks and Hispanics who were jumping up and down for joy, shrieking, and throwing themselves indiscriminately into each others arms in celebration.

It’s about the children who saw history made last night, and knowing that they, and we, now live in a completely different world.

Everything has changed for them. Everything has changed for all of us. And successive generations will grow up knowing that a black man can be President, because a black man IS president.

We can all breathe more freely now, every one of us, from every race, creed, and color. Thank God Almighty, free at last.

[Martin Luther King: I Have a Dream (full speech)]

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Vivienne

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