A Black Blogger’s Reaction to Obama’s Win
Oh, let’s see.
It was around eleven p.m. last night when we did “the TV switch” here at “Stately LM Manor”. A little ritual (that we are not alone in participating in, I’m sure) consisting of me shifting my television viewing from the the big-screen, back bedroom TV to the smaller one in the living room as my wife moves from the living room to said back bedroom to go to sleep. Having finished her little bout of compulsive document shredding for the week-a lingering post-identity theft symptom-she was good and tired, and I could have the living room back to myself to absorb the Iowa caucus results with the shredder’s annoying din now done.
I snapped my laptop shut and quickly folded the little ash tray table for the switcheroo…and looked at the big TV for a moment. I’d been back there in that room for over an hour by myself and had in-a-not-inside-voice mused aloud “Holy shit.” when they called the caucus for Barack Obama.
Actually, I’d said “Holy shit.” a few times as I’d risen from the bed and paced the room, hands on hips, absorbing the on-screen reactions to Obama’s surprising (for me, at least) win. I was fairly drowning in phrases like “sea change”, “end of an era”, “turning of the page”, and most notably…”historic moment”. I soon realized that I’d been repeatedly stopping to look at the TV with a “Did I really just see what I just saw?” look reminiscent of the fellow at the far right on Earth, Wind & Fire’s “That’s The Way Of The World” album cover shown below.
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