Something bigger than all of us!

I've been called an Obama maniac, an Obama head, in short... many a name all depicting my support and adoration for our NEW PRESIDENT ELECT!
I've had political arguments and strong disagreements with friends, and truly understood why people who love eachother should NOT discuss politics or religion.
But I want to put all politics aside and share with you why I believe America has turned a new leaf.
Regardless of how you feel about Barack Obama's polticial future... what he may or may not do for our country... how big of a "socialist" you think he may turn out to be or not... this decision made by almost 63 million Americans is so much bigger than that.

You see, growing up, everyone dreams of being president, only to discover as you get older that Presidents of the United States are usually older, white males... who come from politically influential or financially well off families. So you dash those hopes and move on to aspirations of being a doctor or a lawyer... if you truly dream big.
I am obviously not African American... but as an immigrant brought to this country in search for a better life, this gives me hope... not for me, but for my own children.
They will grow up in a different world than I will... not questioning whether their heritage or background will automatically disqualify them from ever holding the office of Commander In Chief. They can grow up knowing that they too, can someday accomplish what to the world seems unreachable.
This isn't a black or white victory, it's not a young or old victory... it's a victory for all of us... White, Black, Hispanic, Asian, etc. Because now, in the eyes of the world, we are already different. We aren't the country of people who not only enslaved Africans to pick our cotton fields, who not only forbid Asians from purchasing property after World War II, who have daily deportations of mothers who birth children in the US and have to leave them behind because their legal status isn't the same as their kids... we can always remember these injustices, but we can work from now on to be different.
So whether your state turned red or blue on election day, whether you cried during McCain's concession speech or cheered during Obama's Grant Park Celebration... you and I should be proud... proud of what we as a people could accomplish. Sure there are still ignorant people on this planet, who would protest an African American moving next door, or refuse to associate with a gay person, or make disgusting jokes about Latinos... but if you open your heart up just a tiny bit, and realize that we're all the same on the inside... then there is hope, not just for our kids, but all the generations that will follow.