so... i was going to save this post for monday...
but, it's been on my mind all day long, since early this morning...
today... whenever i think about tuesday... when i think about voting... and trying to grasp what it will feel like... i get quite choked up and emotional
i've voted many times... and in two presidential elections... it's nothing new for me...
but, i will be voting for, quite possibly, the first black president of this country...
the first biracial president...
this is so huge... so so huge i don't even really have the words...
barack obama is the first presidential candidate i've ever seen myself in... he moves me in a way that no other politician (of my lifetime) has ever done so...
i am biracial. my sister and i grew up in a single parent home. my mother was so young when she had us. my father was not a part of our life... his absence was stronger than anything else. my mother worked so hard and her parents (my white grandparents) helped take care of us. when i graduated from college, i worked as a community organizer... and, i will tell you... it was the toughest job i've ever done (yes, tougher than potty training eleven 2 year old boys). i have hope. i need change. and, i will help change the world.
this tuesday... when i hand in my ballot for barack obama... i will be a part of history... you will be a part of history... and, one day (down the road) my children will read of this and know that i helped to change the world and that they, too, will do so...
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Beautiful Post. Being black and white myself, I never thought I would see the day someone just like me ran for president. It is a beautiful time in history and I look forward to placing my vote as well. (Now if only they would let us check two boxes for ethnicity on major forms!!)
This sums up how much change is needed, not only in your country but in the whole world. I am watching the campaign here in the UK and alt hough i dont have the power to vote my hopes are that those that do use it for change.
(im half indian... we have had a woman PM here in england but methinks a mixed raced one is some way off )
cheers Tiffany! When Obama speaks it is like he was born to be the president. I am excited and nervous about Tuesday....
this made me teary.
I feel that obama is the first presidential candidate (in my lifetime) who really represents EVERYONE. black, white, old, young....
I am so nervous for tuesday. last time I thought there was NO WAY G.B. could be elected again. so now I'm cautiously optimistic.
xo
Hey! Don't worry, man. My kids at school have been getting nervous, too, that things won't turn out the way we want them to . . . but I tell them to be confident and glad and the universe will take care of it.
Come down for the inauguration!
this moved me so much, tiffany. i feel so much the same way... i keep telling e that this is partially for our future biracial kids. so we can tell them that the president of the united states is biracial just like them.
i voted in florida on saturday and i felt my whole body tingling. there was an energy in the air like nothing i have ever experienced.
i have so, so much hope for tomorrow!
xo
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