An African-American woman, during some of the post-election coverage on television, said that her children will never know a world in which someone who looks like them could not be president.
It is hard for me, as a guy who has so little pigment in his skin as to be close to clear, shy my freckles, to understand how much this means to people of color. And yet, I feel it, too.
Part of what is going on is the end of an election cycle, when the country held its breath until the results come in.
Part of it is the end of a time in history when many in our country held their breath wondering if there would ever be more than historical changes and small, incremental changes in what is possible for people of color, and with that, all people, in our own lifetimes.
The pundits on both sides have already started spinning and twisting. But in this moment, the nation took a breath, stepped into a future that many saw impossible just a short time ago, and we are still breathing.
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"But in this moment, the nation took a breath, stepped into a future that many saw impossible just a short time ago, and we are still breathing."
And that breath felt good!
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