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Obama ran and won, I believe my kids can fly | emerging mosaic

My oldest son who many say looks like Obama and has a biracial and a immigrant parent in common insisted he stay up to see the results to their conclusion and Obama acknowledge the win. He thought nothing of saying after a basketball career at Princeton I’ll go on to the presidency. It was all within the realm of possibility and for the first time i could say without hesitation yes son you can.

His flight is no longer restricted to sports on this morning in America. A black man who has normally been relegated to the bottom of the social totem pole in America has risen to the highest office in the land.

Andre Daley (who is a Jamaican immigrant and who, as far as I can tell, is not related to me) articulates one of the huge statements that this election makes.  Earlier I talked about how if a kid is always being told everyday that the people who look like them can only be second in command, can only be important as an athlete or performer then they will believe it. This election, and for the next four years, African American children have one heck of a proof of concept.

I look forward to the first Asian American, Hispanic American, presidents as well.