11 pm and the shift has occured

from slavery, 3/5th of a vote in the constitution, to no vote in the poll tax south, to the president in just 140 odd years. everyone's child can become president. half white half black. half kansas and half immigrant. the original american dream, realized. finally. all men ARE created equal. America is the great melting pot - isn't that what we were supposed to believe all along? well, the pot has melted.

i feel a great sense of relief. it is time. it has been long enough. when the old confederacy votes to deliver the presidency to an african american - it's done. you all who drug your feet, it's over, america is transformed. it is finished. we have arrived at Jefferson's original ideal.

all men ARE created equal.

perhaps it IS because i was a child of the 70's that i think that this is the future and not an apocolyptic future, but a fresh and clear future. the elementary school i went to was named leda shishoff elementary school. this was in 1978 - the school was named after a past principal of the school. she was an african american and she made her way to be principal in an elementary school in nj in the 1950's! a majority white town voted to name the school after her. she had passed away before i ever even attended the school. so maybe to me - it is different - why wouldn't an african american be a good leader? she was. and she was good enough for all the white folks in williamstown in the 50's and 60's. why would someone be ineligable for leadership now due to their melanin count? why wasn't colin powell ineligible when he led our armed forces, or condoleeza rice when she led our foriegn affairs? those two republicans - and african americans - had risen to some of the highest ranks America has to offer. would they not be eligible?

it is over. it is finished. the declaration of independence has finally reached fruition today! all the words of the declaration are now a reality. God bless and protect us all. and i do not see why He would not.

beyond race - in fact - when a man is 50% white and raised by his white grandparents and 50% black - is there even such a thing as race anymore? i'm losing words....

race. given the reality of science and the workings of genetics taking us all back to africa, and given the cultural realization that, yes, despite the fact that generations said the words but did not enact them - ALL men ARE created equal.