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As I sat watching Barack Obama give his speech tonight it hit me how amazing it is to be alive to witness that. It is something that will be written in textbooks and it was perfect that is coincided with Dr. King’s “I Have A Dream Speech.” Immediately after the speech I called my parents who, like most people in their 60’s remarked ” I never imagined in my lifetime that I would witness something like this.” Their generation remembers all the barriers that had to be broken for Barack Obama to be even up there to talk tonight. So as I watched and looked at his family, I thought of my family and the millions of Black families that tomorrow will stand a little taller knowing that it did happen in their lifetime.