today is the day.

today is the day that so many have dreamed of. that so many have hoped for, and prayed for. today is the day that is making history. today is the day that will inspire our youth, will give hope to the hopeless, will give chances to many.

today is the day that our ancestors worked for. the day that they hoped would come. the day that many gave thier lives for. the day that they earned.

my grandmother would love to be here, watching this happen. she was a woman before her time...she went to college, as did her mother. she was a tough cookie, and passionate. she refused to allow my mother to play with the children of people who were in favor of segregation. she told my mother "you will get in that pool" when the other mother were pulling thier daughters out, because a black child was swimming there, too. every summer they adopted a "fresh air child" - which was an "inner city" child of color. they made the best of those summers, and tried to give those kids every opportunity they could....because my grandma thought the rest of the world wouldn't.

and she was right, in those times....those kids wouldn't have. those kids probably thought they would never, ever, get to the place where obama is today.

but we are there. we are THERE. it's not only about color....it's about hope. hope that we can turn our country around. we can hope. after all...if you don't have hope, then what do you have?

so to those who said it couldn't be done, shouldn't be done, would never be done...i extend my middle finger to you and say "yes we can!" because, we did. it.