A Different Kind Of History Being Made

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Many of you that have followed my election blog are aware that we live in a very small town in central Texas. You may have read the article I did of the elderly man who took out a half page ad in the local paper warning people of the mistake it would be to vote for Obama.

This has been a town where we were not able to express our views or who we were supporting because it could cost my hubby his job or cause both of us not to work in this town. (That has been our feelings about it)

The morning after the election hubby went to town to get a paper so we could have what we consider one of the most important pieces of history. Instead we found this on the front page. Pictures of the people in this county who were elected or re-elected with the title "Nation selects Obama, McCain wins Texas." McCain is mentioned in the rest of the article among the locals who won.

At first I was angry, depressed and then angry again but my hubby said to keep the article. This article in itself is a part of history. It shows the racism and ignorance that still exist in this country. Someday my grandchild will have my memory box and I hope when that day comes she will have children of her own. I hope by then all racism will be gone, all hatred and intolerance will be gone and she can look at this article in amazement. I hope she can look at it, tell her children about it in disbelief that it was ever like that in this country.

The thing that does make me happy about all of this is the fact that she will be able to tell her children that her grandparents helped elect the first African American President, Barack Obama!