NA NA NA NA HEY HEY HEY GOODBYE

There is now a generation of children from all over the world who will no longer say the following sentence: "I won't see a black person as president of the United States in my lifetime".



I don't believe that Obama has ended or even slowed down the practice of American exceptionalism. I feel as though we will continue to believe that in America there is no class difference, we will believe that in America we can have all those fancy things they advertise on TV, we will continue to believe that we are not an imperialist nation with every intent on maintaining our dominance over the world. We will continue to believe in the mythology that America has higher "ideals" and that we are an exception to the rule of colonialism and all that that entails: We don't kill innocent people every day, and we maintain high standards that transcend the need for power. We will continue to lie to ourselves and not admit that we control the majority of the world's resources and that we are not doing anything to stop that.

And I am not rationalizing. I am not justifying this reality. Nor am I contributing more to American exceptionalism.

We have witnessed a clear shift in consciousness this past month, and we will have an entire generation, and generations after that, who will never think that they won't see a black person in the office of the white house. That is powerful and I am holding onto that with my heart and soul. We haven't even begun to feel the amazing effects of this shift, we haven't even begun to fully grasp what it means for the next several generations that they will no longer have to believe such a terrible statement. We haven't even begun to witness the consequences of such a radical idea, and the fact that someday very soon I will look back on this post and think "wow, it really wasn't all that radical", and someone fifteen years from now will laugh at me in my old age and say "it's so hilarious what those old people think of as radical". That is why I can NOT wait to be at the inauguration on January 20, 2009 to sing this song: