OBAMA ELECTED: A PROFOUND BLOW TO WHITE SUPREMACY!

There was something special about this election and the mobilization of so many who had not voted in years was part of it. Obama gave so many of us hope that something good, something progressive and something that is good for main street could come out of government. Obama offered hope that he would be anti-war and that he would be progressive in some other ways. He offered himself as a Black man to be President of the White House and he did it with a campaign that leaves everyone impressed with Barrack Obama.

Of course the issues matter more than the President's ethnicity but his election is a powerful symbolic blow to the idea that Blacks are inferior to Whites. It may also have an impact on structural racism but that is yet to be seen. Still, the symbolic impact of a Black President is undeniable. His keen intelligence and wise demeanor have, of course, been his chief assets.

So little children will be in the White House again and it is hopeful that in a nation with such a bitter legacy of racism and white supremacy that they will be black. So I am content to wonder for a moment how those who missed this historic turning point might have greeted it. Frederic Douglass would be pleased if he were here today.

I was heartened to see this day myself and I have seen more than one person seem to shed a tear when leaving the voting booth. There is much good in the United States of America. Progressive hope has been soaring and it will be up to all of us to make progressive realities come true.

Remember, Obama's victory is more the result of pent up progressive political demand and progressive political action than the other way around and the people will make progressive history one way or another. Obama may help in some areas and not in others. We await his deeds.