and that's no exageration at all. I don't know if many non-black folks fully realize that.

There are more than a few accounts of elderly black voters so overcome with a lifetime of emotions that they're bursting into tears as they fill out their ballot for Barack Obama.

For all of their lives, all of their parents' lives, all of their grandparents' lives, they've been choosing between two white men for President, and struggling evey day to overcome so many barriers to success in their lives, both the real ones in the world around them, and the ones in their own minds. Growing up black in America means being reminded in a hundred little ways every day that you're inferior, you're feared (if you're male) and that you have limitations.

Tomorrow morning, for the very first time, millions of African-American children will wake up to a new world in which they too can dream of growing up to become President of the United States of America. The enormous positive impact on the self-esteem and confidence of these children is immeasureable, and the change in the path of their lives so beneficial for our society.