I Am America Too

I've always known that I am America too, but it's been something that I felt the need to fight for. Various situations have made it painfully clear that others didn't see me the way they saw their perception of the "average American woman." I have been called alot of names and told to go a number of places that have alot to do with my color and race and the speakers ignorance. In high school sitting in the back of my civics class one girl told me to go back to Somalia where I came from. It didn't crush my spirit (though it obviously stuck with me) because my mother had made sure that we where educated about where we came frome. So I preceded to share that knowledge with her (as I understood it at the time).

"I was born on American soil, and as the decedents of slaves, I have no way of knowing exactly which country I come from. But the sin of my country gives me a right because a great of deal of America's wealth, particularly in the South, was built on the backs of black slaves and therefore I think I will stay, thank you much, but where are from, America like me?" She sighed my name in irritation and never spoke to me like that again.

I am America too.

Today the tears still fall, more than the day before. My country is . . . changing and changing me. I have spent so much of my life trying to change her, as she catches up, maybe I can trust her to change me too.

Father, protect our president and protect his vision.

-N. Fury-
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This is why I cry

Black America overwhelming voted for Barack Obama. In fact 95% of African-Americans that voted, voted for Barack Obama but black America is only 11% of this country, and all of us did not vote. It was a different kind of "we" that put Obama in office: an equally beautiful, truly colorful, diverse "we." A dynamic America elected this man and that is why tears are falling today, because the tide is changing.

There is something that I have always known about my country and that thought may just be changing . . .

-N. Fury-
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The Morning After Obama was named the 44th President of the United States of America

This morning I felt numb, but as the day burns on tears seem to well up in my eyes every time I am alone in the sunlight, I cry.
Why?

-N. Fury-
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Obama's Acceptance Speech for the Presidency

I'm sleepy now, so I have even less words but Obama just gave his Acceptance speech moments after McCain's concession. And I usually say, "politicians are politicians." But he came off so sincere, calm and focused; AND nobody shot at him tonight.

There’s something that I have always known about America that may no longer be true.

Maybe (just maybe for right now), we finally believe that “all” men are created equal.

Can this be real, and they let him live?

-N. Fury-
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Barack Obama's acceptance speech in Chicago, just moments after McCains concession speech. I can tell I am going to be looking forward to the state of union addresses.

Obama is the next President, McCain gives his concession speech

Thinking it would be hours before we knew, I was asleep. Then cutting through my dreamless state, "He did it," she whispered. "He won." I bolted out bed and followed her to the television. Half delirious and in complete shock, I tried to believe what she was saying. I had to see it.

And there was McCain giving his concession speech, sounding like the kind of man that anyone could respect. I listened with my mouth open like a child and my mind drifted a million places at once:
How would this race have been different if the man giving the concession had been the same man that we had been seeing all these months on the television (but political analyst are better suited for this question, I guess)?

How can they know the results already? Can this be right?

But McCain is the one saying . . .

Oh my God, he won.

I keep listening. What does this mean? My country is . . . I don't have the words yet.

--N. Fury--
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McCain's concession speech, his promise to get behind our new President, and his acknowledgement of our first African-American President.