So America, this is it. The day that I and millions of others like me thought would never come has finally arrived. How do I feel? I feel overwhelmed with emotion, overcome with hope and ready for change. This is the day I’ve been waiting for ever since I was old enough to knew what it all meant - what Martin Luther King, Jr. meant, what Rosa Parks did, what the Civil Rights Movement and so on. And although it’s hard to believe, it even goes beyond that - it goes to being able to look up at the leader of this country and be proud.

The last eight years, I cried silent tears of sadness. Tomorrow, when I see Barack Obama as our new president, I will cry tears of joy. Free at last, free at last, thank God almighty, we are free at last.