I can’t describe what I felt when I heard NBC’s David Gregory call the election for Barack Obama. I thought about Deon’s little friend and the guys who sprayed paint on my student and wondered where they were. But above all, I thought about Barack Obama — a man born of a White mother and a Kenyan father who has chosen to identify with Black people. A man who carries the hopes and dreams of this people on his shoulders. A man who stayed true to himself when others advised him not to. A man who has given Black people a reason to believe that we really can be anything we want to be.
Dr. Teresa J. Williams is the associate dean for student and external affairs in the Jepson School of Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond.
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