I have been planning to start my blog for the last six months and decided that my first day would be February 1, ‘09. However, watching the morning talk shows today, Inauguration Day, I decided to start today. I have been thinking about the African-American people who are over 70 years old, especially those from the Southern states, how overwhelming a day this is for them. I hope that the ones who are so young that they may not understand the significance of this day, have someone to relate this great day to them.
Can we just for a minute, think how humiliated these elderly people felt when they were told that they couldn’t use a particular bathroom because of their race, no matter how badly they wanted to go. This injustice has caused me the most anger I have felt towards America, since I first came to this great country in June 1971.
However, today I am so happy, so ecstatic that an African-American is now president of this great country.