A Tribute to Those Who Have Come Before
I weep for those who have come before us and are unable to see our Black President. I truly hope there is a special place in heaven for righteous people to look down on Barack Obama and rejoice. I want Ulysses to see this - my Ulysses - the love of my life - to see that a Black man became president in our generation. I want Martin Luther King to applaud the distance we have come since he was so brutally shot. I hope Rosa Parks understands that she was an integral piece to this election process. I want every slave who was shipped to America to see that the day has come when a Black person can be elected president in this "field of blood". I hope the election was viewed by the 3 young college students shot while signing up voters in the rural south and the 4 little girls bombed in the church in Atlanta. May every victim of a lynching look down upon Obama with pride and may Emmett Till know that times have changed since he was murdered. Oh, how I weep! I weep with joy and sorrow!
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