It makes sense that African Americans, especially older blacks who lived through segregation and Jim Crow, would have been pessimistic about the chances of seeing a black man elected to our country's highest office. According to a CNN poll released earlier this week 71 percent of blacks believed that they would never see a black president in their lifetime, although 80 percent said that Obama's win was a dream come true.
On the flip side, 59 percent of whites believed they would see a black president in their lifetime, but just 28 percent considered Obama's win to be a dream come true. Well, the McCain voters have to fit in somewhere. Everyone came to a consensus on this: race relations will improve in some way as a result of Barack Obama's presidency. We shall see, won't we?
I think I'm only "excited" becuz everybody else is excited. I showed no emotions on election night. I voted and then went straight to the movies (I already knew Obama would win). I understand why other African Americans feel the way they do, but me… I really didn't care. Maybe it's because I'm of "foreign extraction."