Martin Luther King, Jr in 1966 said, "We will be able to rise from the fatigue of despair to the buoyancy of hope. This will be a great America. We will be the participants in making it so. So as I leave you I say, Walk together children, don't ya get weary."
Two years ago, I told my cousin at Christmas, that Barack Obama would be the next President. He, like many gay men, was an adamant Hillary supporter and wouldn't hear of it - besides, who was Barack Obama anyway. I said, "just watch." Like many of you, there was something about Barack from early on that made us know he had a call to leadership.
The primaries were just 10 months ago - Iowa shocked the nation. I have to admit, I thought he'd win NH...and then he lost. It was a long primary battle that saw me doing work in WI and IN, voting absentee in NC, phonebanking TX, OH, PA, WI, NH, MO and some others.
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