What A Difference A Day Makes…. Barack Obama
Shakara
Nov. 4.2009 11:13am
Last year around this time I was headed to the polls to vote for Barack Obama to become the first African American President. That evening my girlfriend and I attended an election watch party downtown and when Barack won the nomination we celebrated in the streets of Harlem. As I drove through the streets of Harlem and watched people dancing, singing, hugging and crying…I thought to myself “did I not get the memo.”
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