Can't blame them for feeling the way they do:
"Among blacks, joy and tears at journey's end" by Michael Levenson, Globe Staff | November 5, 2008
Millions of black voters across the country turned out to help elect Barack Obama the first African-American president yesterday, and as they did, they reflected not just on the course of a historic campaign, but on the history of a nation.
From Florida to Arizona, Chicago to Boston, black Americans said they were writing a new chapter in a progression that began long before Obama burst onto the scene at the Democratic National Convention in 2004. The moment was tinged with poignancy at the prices paid by generations before them who could have never imagined a black man winning the highest office in the land.
I must admit, I didn't believe until a few weeks ago.
In Boston, as elsewhere in the country, the march to the polls by black voters began early. Young and old streamed into voting booths at churches, schools, and apartment buildings, with walkers and canes, baby strollers and iPods.
At 9 a.m. in Hyde Park, the line outside the Elihu Greenwood Elementary School stretched around the building. Schoolchildren in a bus peered out the window, chanting, "Obama! Obama!" At the George A. Lewis Middle School in Roxbury, Governor Deval Patrick, stopping by after voting in Milton, remarked to one voter, "Proud day, isn't it?"
"It's a beautiful day!" the voter replied.
Patrick, the second black governor elected in the United States since Reconstruction, pointed to his chest. "I can tell you personally that I feel full," he said. Hours later, he was in Chicago for Obama's victory rally. "I'm going early so I can go to my old neighborhood and sit on the stoop for a while and just feel this," he said.
First of all, guv, WHO PAID for the trip?
Second of all, what was the CARBON FOOTPRINT on that?
Yeah, that's what I thought!
When results confirmed what many had only dared to hope, celebrations erupted and many reflected on the implications of a black man elected to the highest office in the country, the same country that less than 50 years ago denied blacks the right to vote."
That's right; women got the vote before the blacks.
WHITE women, that is.
No wonder some black women have an "attitude," huh?
