My feelings about history being made...

Tonight, Well tonight has made me have true hope for America again.

At 8pm pacific time on November 4th, as they announced OBAMA was going to be the the 44th President of the United States. The first ever African-American president. I cried. I cried for everything I've ever wanted to see happen in the US but never thought would. To finally see someone of color hold the number one government spot in the United States just made me feel true HOPE.

The first time I ever heard Obama speak, was when he was running for Senate in Illinois. I was watching C-SPAN with my granny, and I told her "wow he would make a good president one day". But I never thought that could happen. With how racist America can be, I never thought that the first year I can vote for a President I would be voting for Barack Hussein Obama!

I did how ever always have hope, 2 years ago when he first announced he would run as president, and started his journey, I told everyone that he would win and just wait and see. At that point in time no one thought he could beat Hillary Clinton, and if he did no one thought we could get over the racist parts of this country. BUT WE DID.

All I can think is that everything is going to change for the better. Finally I will have health care, finally I can go to college if I want, finally someone will work to stop Global Warming, and finally kids from all over the world, can look at the United States president and say if he can do it, then I can do it and I can be anything I want to be.

I am just so friggen happy. I've never felt so happy and proud of this country. Proud of everyone who voted. Proud of all the people who are partying in the streets tonight (or this morning really). WE HAVE CHANGED THE WORLD.

For once this isn't about Red States or Blue States, This is about the United States. This is about us. This is all truly about making the world better for us.

And I am so so so friggen happy.

Eight years I've been listening to Obama, 8 years. And now for the next hopefully 8 years I will get to see him transform our country to what our country should be. Which is an equal United States. Where it doesn't matter if your gay, straight, black or white, all that matters is your an American.

Everything has changed. From this moment on. History has changed.

Everything Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Harriet Tubman and feminist and civil rights activist everywhere have worked for has finally happened.

And so the tears I shed tonight, were tears of joy, tears of knowing that i will get health care, tears of knowing that we will be okay, tears of how proud i am for our country for once in my life.

I will end this with saying that I look forward to the next 4 years.

-E.Rockett