Happenings

In One Beat – election of Barack Obama

“It was so amazing..
…people just started pouring out of their doors and into the streets in these residential neighborhoods of Brooklyn. Young folk, and older folk- everybody in tune and proud of our nation.. tonight was a night and a sight to see. A message to this generation: change is possible. Difference is possible. ”

We were election-channel surfing and went back to CNN to the timer countdown till the polls closed on the west coast. It was probably as close a thing ever to a New Years countdown.. because when it hit zero, CNN blasted Barack Obama ELECTED PRESIDENT and gave Obama all of California’s electoral votes (almost pre-emptively). Then the shouts from one apartment to another came and we went down into the street. Cars honking, bar-goers shouting, people high-fiving down the sidewalk.. (well one thing’s for sure- I’m glad I got invited out at the last second because it would’ve been half as climactic in my room).

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