"This election is about you the American people," Obama said.
Obama's acceptance speech confirmed for me that he is the choice for President of the United States of America.
You can watch his speech here.
I do feel that he needs better informed advisors when it comes to a clean energy and transportation economy, which translates to cleaner air. I wrote about it here. I feel Obama's got the brains to listen to informed advisors, whereas maverick McCain, who boasts being 5th to the bottom-of-his class does not.
With that said,
It was such a gratifying experience to listen to Obama--so presidential--and watch high spirited Americans respond.
As a little girl growing up in San Francisco, I knew the definitions of civil unrest, pepper spray, Vietnam War, segregation, and desegragation.
I knew our family was color blind.
My dad would say,
"All blood runs the same no matter one's skin color or religion."
But I grew up across the street from San Francisco State University where people fought to be heard, fought to stop the war, fought for equal rights and to integrate the public schools.
Many times streets were blocked off due to violence at San Francisco State and police dealt with it with pepper spray. I wouldn't be able to play outside on those days. By the time I was in 6th grade, my white public school became integrated as African Americans were bused in. I can't tell you how moving today is for me. Tonight Obama accepted our party's nomination to run for the position of 44th President of the United States of America. He did so on the 45th Anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech. Martin Luther King had a dream that people be judged by the content of their character not the color of their skin. And so it came to pass in red, white, blue, and Barack Obama. I took a fair amount of crap while traveling outside of America for being an American, but you see the beauty of America is we can change, grow, and inspire the next generation.
And we do.
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