Portrait of a quintessentially American family

Wednesday morning, I woke up and looked out my window, searching for signs of a changed world.  It was gray and dreary; I still had to take the subway to Kendall for my game theory class, and people still shot nasty looks if you happened to get in the way.  Not much had changed, in other words.

There were moments when I'd forget entirely--in the morning when I was fixing coffee or in the evening when I was cycling back from the department--and then I'd remember, and my heart would swell.  It was the first day in my 26 years of living that I felt like a full citizen of my own country.  I couldn't tell if the world was different, but I knew I was.

I don't know if what I mean to invoke is a universal of the Black experience, or the biracial experience, or the bicultural experience, or the immigrant experience, or if it just my peculiar experience.   Since I was a very young child, I felt at odds with the world around me.  I always wanted to travel abroad.  It was a generalized feeling of restlessness beyond explanation or reason.  Maybe there was a part of me that hoped I'd find a homecoming somewhere far away, where my true tribe lived.  

Tuesday night, when Barack Obama gave his acceptance speech, I was moved (how could I not be?  it was enough to make Pat Buchanan misty-eyed), but it was that image of him with his beautiful wife and two beautiful daughters that had me balling like a baby.  A perfect picture of a loving a family.  A family whose image will be endlessly photographed and transmitted around the world the next eight years, until it becomes absolutely commonplace, maybe even ordinary.  The First Family. A quintessentially American. Like mine.

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Ahhh yes, here's the photo I was looking for:

Comments

[Mnikelo Ndlovu]

We are all happy that Obama won, and it is a great sign of a shift in the paradigms of world politics. This blog piece appealed to me because it adressed an important issue in my opinion, that of change. I talked of something similar in our blog, regarding xenophobia in our country(South Africa), and our university Rhodes. This is a great article because it is focused on a positive thing. If you want to read up on student having fun, check out our blog at: http://gmapjourn.blogspot.com

[BRE]

It is wonderful that you had the chance to experience LIVE this great victory over fear and prejudice in U.S. politics. After all, you are part of what he has been talking about___ change and hope and a new beginning for America. It is you victory too, and it is your time.

Good luck wherever you are in the world today and God bless.

[Miguel]

My family is from Peru & I was born there but I "grew up" in Southeast Asia only moving to the US when I was seventeen; no homecoming can take place for me. The first thirteen years here I thought California was America, then for seven years I thought Wisconsin/Iowa was America, and now after almost five years in North Carolina I see that they're all America. America is diverse but too many Americans see just their own little part of it believing it to be the "true" America; don't try telling them otherwise. Barack Obama really is America w/ his diverse background. I feel more welcome in America now.

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思路明晰
催眠可令人思考時更棒、更靈活，可消除溫習時的種種外在分神因素，自我催眠可令難於集中心神聽演講的人，覺得時間飛快溜過。

究竟催眠是否可以增強記憶，這是個比較多爭議的課題，專家意見不一。在實驗室得來的數據並不可*，因為接受實驗的人要記憶同一篇文字，而每個人的需要並不相同。

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