Yes - it is 2:30 a.m. and I am going to call it a night pretty soon, but not without a few thoughts about what we have just experienced as a nation. And I'm saying this beyond the topic of race, but for an American identity that we can finally feel good about again. I think I am the happiest for my son that will wake up in a few hours and look into the face of our new President and see a piece of himself looking back at him. Isaac and President Elect Obama share a common story of family that gives me so much hope for both our nation, and Isaac. I can't wait to wake him up and have the chance to tell him that his hero is now his President.
I'm also hopeful for my son that is yet to arrive. He will not know an America where a vast group of citizens have been disenfranchised and left out of the political process. He will group up in an America where anything is possible and anyone can make it. He will come into an America that is better than the one his brother came into. Not because a President Obama can single handedly change everything that is wrong and fix every problem, but because a door has opened that before tonight has always been locked for some people. Yes We Can!
