Rocking Gently on my Dreams

A few things...

• OBAMA WON!!!!!!!!! I was so excited and happy when I heard the news, I screamed and jumped in the street! After talking to one of my roommates but my anxieties and fears about the election, I was couldn't believe that my hopes that Obama would win came true!!
  
• Also, by no means was my elation singular. Around 8pm when the presidential race results were announced, students and people of Berkeley went crazy in the streets! We made a marathon run in a crowd of hundreds or thousands up toward College, around Frat Row, down Telegraph, into Sproul towards Free Speech Movement Cafe, back through Sproul and down and around Shattuck towards Telegraph again, all the while singing the national anthem and shouting "OBAMA!" and "Yes we DID!" It was truly one of the most amazing moments of my life, and an experience that i'll remember forever! Thinking back on it today, it seems surreal that it happened...i've never felt such a shared feeling of excitement with so many people. It felt momentous, historic, and refreshing. I can't wait until the day when I can tell my children this story.
• Amidst the chants of "Si, se puede" and utterances of change, Prop 8 passed :(. I am devasted and heartbroken that there is so much in hate in people that they would rob human beings of fundamental rights and award more rights to chickens and pigs!!
  
• Now my feelings are ambivalent; how can we claim to advocate change while we ammend backwards laws? Although I couldn't be happier that Obama will be our 44th president, part of me just wants to get up and leave California, America, and this seemingly hypocritical/paradoxical nation!!