1.20.09 The Inauguration of Barack Obama

Today I am high!
Turn to your neighbor and say 'President Barack Obama.'
I said turn to your neighbor and say 'President. Barack. Obama!'
This day is so surreal that I cannot breathe.
It's a day that I just didn't believe I'd see in my lifetime.
And my body is going crazy.
I want to throw on Afrika Bambaataa's 'Planet Rock' and get it.
I want to break out into the 'Wop', do the 'Running Man'. Do something.
It feels so good outside.
It's like someone poured milk chocolate in the streets.
There's electricity in the air.
It's Christmas day and New Year's Eve.
It's beyond magnificient.
I kept my son home from school this morning.
So that I could videotape him watching the inauguration of Barack Obama.
My children are very young right now but
I know that they will appreciate the video in the years to come.
I wanted them to see this beautiful black man take that oath beside his queen
on the bible that Abraham Lincoln used.
I wanted them to witness President Obama walk, erect, with purpose
and smile like it was 85 degrees.
I want them to know that this is a class act who took a train ride
from Philadelphia to D.C., who walked his predecessor to his helicopter and
bid him farewell.
Who stepped out of his part-tank, part caddy
and pimp walked down Pennsylvania Ave. like, 'What?!'
I am not crazy.
I know that Obama is not our savior and that he alone cannot
fix all the problems that we face.
I'm just comfortable knowing that he's going to try.
That he's going to do his best.
That at the very least, he's going to LISTEN!
If I could run onto the freeway and poplock I would.
Cause that's how I'm feeling today.
This is history.
And I'm so blessed to be alive to witness it!