Voting

Today as I voted for the very first time I got chills realizing how historic of an election this is. Even though my vote didn't really count because Illinois is so solidly Democrat, I still felt historic marking the arrow next to "Barack Obama". Maybe he'll win, I certainly hope so, I don't know, but regardless I love it that our country has come to a point where a black man has the chance of actually becoming president whereas only 5o years ago Jim Crowe laws existed in the south and black people were getting sprayed with fire hoses for trying to vote.

Not that there isn't so much farther to go, institutionalized racism is deeply embedded in our country--but at least we have a hope of a president who understands that.