There will be those who say it doesn’t, but they’re wrong, just as they have been for these eight long years.
Yesterday:
What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer; a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are, to Him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy -- a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States, at this very hour.
Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the Old World, travel through South America, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me, that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival....
Today:
Those who chose not to vote because Hillary lost, McCain was pro-choice, or Obama was African American have lost. America won.
Focus on Family and all the other smug rightwing religious nuts had their chance to take over with hate and fear but informed voters realized they were being played for fools.
Abortion, terrorists, and religion didn’t have the same ring this time round. The economy, two wars, hundreds of thousands of people dead clearly was a wake-up call.
Yes, we may have lost the anti-American ballot initiatives banning gay marriage and adoption, (though the winner isn't yet clear) but there is hope in change in our future. It is only a matter of time before these too, come to pass.
Hate didn't win the day. Thank God.
Fear didn't win the day. It never does in the long run.
America, we have a mandate. Let’s not fuck it up. OK?
All children may now dream of becoming President of the United States of America; that is now a simple fact. Every parent can say that to his or her kids and point to the White House as proof.
No, this election will not end racism in this country. It is too deeply engrained, but we have taken steps in the right direction and we are all better for taking those steps. Thank you to all progressive American voters who made this day possible.
I am proud to be an American today. It’s been a long time since I’ve felt so.
BONUS: Watching those girls grow up in the White House. A real American family in the White House.
And so it goes
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I share your sense of pride. I thought I would never have it again. Today I do.
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