Lucky me. I'm going to Denver with a bunch of good folk from New American Media, an organization representing about 3000 ethnic news outlets, to cover the Democratic Party convention. This is something that as a child I could only have dreamed about, but now I get to go and watch history in the making. I grew up in a region during a time of segregation. Black boys weren't raised to think they could be President. Now because of Barack Obama, and the changes that have taken place since I was a child, they can. I am celebrating this as I prepare for Denver.
It's only a week and counting until I make that journey from Natchitoches, the oldest town in the Louisiana settlement, to the place of new beginnings---or certainly a future that tells a lot of people who have felt excluded that they really can do whatever they want or become whoever they want and really fulfill their dreams, as I am fulfilling mine today. Check out the stories and information that I'll be sending out to my partner back in Natchitoches that we'll share with all of you at http://www.therealviews.com and at this blog regularly.
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