O.B.A.M.A.

Unfortunately, I was not in D.C. yesterday and did not get the chance to attend any of the events, but I did stream the inauguration live from my computer at work. WOW!!!! This man is awesome! He is so cool, humble, genuine, and confident, but determined, ambitious, and extremely powerful all at the same time. History books, here comes the first African American President of The United States of America!!! This moves me because given the fact that we (African Americans) have had some extraordinary people that have accomplished unbelievable things in their lives, we are always remembered as the fighters. I say that because we've always had to take what we wanted. Things we should've already had at birth. A seat on the bus. Integrated schools. FREEDOM! So, when we look back upon some of the most influential people in black history, I wonder. What if they didn't have to fight so hard just to be a normal person? What did they love to do or want to become other than normal? What would we have accomplished then? If those people were given the exact same rights as everyone else from jump street, our first black president would've come a long while ago, and I'm a firm believer in that. I am very grateful for people like Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks, Dr. King, Malcolm X, and many more because they paved the way for Barack Obama any every other black person in America, but I used to feel like damn, why did we always have to fight? What did we do? Barack Obama is erasing that perception of black people. He has proven, that if you dream big you WILL fly high. He's given us a sense of relief! So, exhale black people...live your life to it's full potential. Stand up and prove that you are somebody instead of fighting, acting a damn fool all the time, and just being down right obnoxious! Represent us in a new light because if you don't, that's a slap in the faces of everyone that helped us get to where we are today. And trust...it was a long trip...Hell, some of us are still riding!