I've been meaning to ask, just haven't gotten around to it, plus I'm worried that the question is premature. But you know, I think I'm finally at the point where I believe it will happen.
Now there's less than a month to go. Now it's just a matter of days. Days until America does something which, I'll be honest, I would have bet America would never do. At least not any time soon.
Just days until in one swift moment, the entire world will do a double-take. Days until Americans of all stripes will come together to reaffirm America's promise to its own people. Days until MLK's dream, and the dreams of all people who love this country's founding PRINCIPLES more than life itself, finally come true.
I want to know:
Where's the party?
On the evening of November 4th, when this moment is finally announced, where do I go to celebrate? Where can I be to experience this historical moment with my brothers and sisters in humanity, with those who truly understand what it may mean for us all?
I'm not going to be at some Democratic party balloon fest. I am not going to be at a bar. I am not going to be in a gym. I am going to be at home, watching the TV with the volume turned down so I don't wake my kids.
And when the time comes, when the moment is announced, I will walk out my front door into the street, and I will look up at the sky and shed tears of joy. That'll be my victory party. To look up at the stars and hope that this means a better future for my little ones. If I'm lucky, some of you reading this will come outside right then too, and maybe we can smile at each other in silence.
Either way, when you finally hear it announced, on the evening of November 4th, that Americans came together and took their country back, and you're sitting at home celebrating the moment quietly alone or as a family, spare a second would you and join me out in the street, and look up at the sky and feel the smiles, hopes and joy of millions of people like you and me reflecting down from the stars.