Election successes and failures

This coming January, America will celebrate three monumental occasions: The end of the Bush regime, the remembrance of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the inauguration of Barack Obama, America's first Black president.

As a Black American, the election of Barack Obama to the presidency of the United States fills me with a sense of pride and liberation.

Since the election, friends and family have continued to ask me how I feel, and although I am seldom at a loss for words, I concede that the human means of expression has not yet developed a vocal fluctuation or symbolic expression that adequately describes my elation.

On Nov. 4 the American people moved closer to aligning our ideals with our action for which we can all be proud.

However, in the midst of this joyous occasion in American history, I send my condolences out to the millions of homosexual Americans who witnessed the assault and robbery of their civil liberties and human rights.

Arizona, California, and Florida all supported propositions banning gay marriage in their states. Arkansas also passed a measure to restrict unmarried couples from adopting children or serving as foster parents.

This is a debacle and the shame of our nation.

I know we are better than the close-minded policies we've supported. We must understand, as individuals, we can never be fully liberated until all of our brethren, black, white, gay or straight, have access to their own self-determination.

Now, more than ever, there is a need for progressive leaders to gather in Congress in order to further their social and political gains.

As we pause to applaud the social progress we've made as a nation, we must remember that we are far from attaining Dr. King's dream of a nation that judges not by the color of one's skin but by the content of one's character; or the dream of a nation that values people not by the preference of their partner but by the purity of their convictions.

We must continue our pursuit for equality, justice, and liberty for all, under the law.

The election has shown that this is the generation of young peoples who are prepared to move toward racial reconciliation; let's utilize the abundance of energy and motivation from this movement in effort to mend the abrasions in our country's social fabric by granting homosexual Americans the justice and equality they've been denied for so long.

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