It Happend.. Barack Obama Makes History!!

Our new First Family - Obama with his wife, Michelle, and their beautiful daughters

All of us involved at the Center for the Arts & Culture @ St. John the Baptist here in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn share in the joy and great, historic event of the election of Senator Barack Obama as our 44th President of these United States of America, making him the first African-American to win the presidency.. and by a landslide!

It's official.. Barack Obama wins!

Barack Obama, the son of a father from Kenya and a white mother from Kansas, was elected the nation's 44th president Tuesday, breaking the ultimate racial barrier to become the first African American to claim the country's highest office.  A nation founded by slave owners and seared by civil war and generations of racial strife, delivered a smashing electoral college and popular vote victory to the 47-year-old first-term senator from Illinois, who forged a broad, multiracial, multiethnic coalition. His victory was a leap in the march toward equality: when Obama was born, people with his skin color could not even vote in parts of America, and many were killed for trying.

Party time in Chicago as the announcement is made.. Obama wins!

"If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer," Obama told more than 240,000 celebrants gathered along Chicago's waterfront. Many had tears streaking their faces.

O, happy day..

Overcome by emotion, the Rev. Jesse Jackson  shed some old tears and new ones as President-elect Obama addressed the crowd and the nation after his historic win

“Young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled, Americans have sent a message to the world that we have never been just a collection of red states and blue states,” he said. “We have been and always will be the United States of America.

“It’s been a long time coming, but tonight, because of what we did on this day, in this election, at this defining moment, change has come to America,” he said to a long roar.  After 8 long destructive, devisive, and nightmarish years of the Bush regime, we are with you Mr. President-elect.. along with our hopes and dreams of a better and brighter tomorrow.. and a future that finally brings us all together.

 

We pray that change is real, positive, and leads to some healing this time around.

  

The ball is in your hands now, Mr. President

God be with the new president.. and may the Lord bless us all.

Congratulations, Barack!