I just got back from voting.  An older African-American couple sat across from me at the table an made me think that while Black folks certainly had the legal right to vote since 1870, in living memory in my state of Alabama it certainly wasn’t a real option in some places.  I won’t presume who they voted for, and I am completely opposed to some of Obama’s policy proposals; but it’s a great thing to think that an African-American is on the ballot for President.

It’s also pretty cool that most folks will have either voted for a Black man for President or woman for Vice-President.

Go vote if you haven’t and consider what a privelage it is that folks who disagree so completely on so many things can agree to be governed by the will of the majority.  Handing over a government (either within your party or to another) without violence is still a revolutionary idea in some parts of the world.