election day

The Day America Elected its first African American President

Rosa Parks lead the Underground Railroad towards our freedom in the north, while Abraham Lincoln signed the proclamation to end our freedom. Rosa parks refused to give her seat so we would not have to constantly sit in the back of the bus and Martin Luther King gave a helping hand by walking for our equality. Malcolm X agreed that we should have equality but believed that the only way to gain it was through violence.
Skipping ahead to the present we now have a president who put us in a depression. Looking for an individual to lead us to the recession then comes along a strong man and a powerful woman, who both then runs for president. History in the making is what we called the election of 2008 as we stay glued to the television set as our new president beginning the year 2009 will be an African American man. Coming from a time period of not being able vote at all, to then running America sounds unbelievable to me. The pressure begins for Obama as all eyes unlock to the television and goes towards him, for any mistake will bring him down. During his acceptance speech he spoke proudly of an elderly woman at the age of 106 who was able to be apart of and witness our first African American president for she has lived through abuse and lived through slavery. She was able to stand on a line to vote for Obama. Putting a little humor in his speech he then told his daughter that he would be able to get the puppy she wanted that she can bring along to the Whitehouse.