This week has been QUITE an experience. Tuesday afternoon was spent amongst friends-a new boy moved into the Fourth Ward and I followed Tiffanie, Jenny and Kyle, Josh, and Christian to a Chinese restaurant, the mall, and my house for Rockband to help welcome him. Later that night, we had mutual at our house to play yet more Rockband. I swear, no one's enjoyed Mom's birthday present more than my friends.
That evening, history was made as Chicago's own Barack Obama was elected to be President. The huge party and avid listeners (Mr. Meyer's described their attentiveness as pin-drop silence) in Chicago were described to look just like America; minorities and majorities all joined together in patriotism towards our new President.
The next day at Waubonsie I witnessed similar jubilee. Though many McCain supporters (such as my seminary friends and morning locker group) were both sore and sour, I've never seen more WV students wearing shirts that circled the same theme before; no, not even on WV/NV game days. President Obama won our school mock election with 68%, and although that stairwell experience was the only one I had like it, you could tell...for a day, there were no boundaries between races, no boundaries between friend groups, no boundaries between grade levels. I do not know who I would have voted for (I didn't look far enough into the politics), but to Waubonsie have such an underlying sense of connection...at least, with the exception of those who were on the losing side...I wave my American Flag high for our new President.
If President Obama can unify our country and our government system the way he's unified his followers, I think that's exactly what we need. The people of America need hope. Obama's ideals are lofty, and many of them are controversial and disagreeable. But that hope he inspires in America and inspires us to have in each other is a hope we need.
I'm just praying he doesn't get assassinated.
"One Last Hope" is from Hercules
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