big night

fun night. i'm guessing it won't take long at all before americans get used to the idea of an african american president. some kids i know are already saying it is sort of racist to even act like it is a big deal. that's what's cool about kids and history -- big events almost instantaneously reduce centuries of struggle to boring taken-for-granted facts to be memorized. only a year ago, barack obama was just a longshot for naive dreamers. tomorrow, his ascension will seem completely natural and perhaps inevitable. and that's how social change happens, i guess. fun night.