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November 5, 2008 The Time For Change Has Come – Now What?Posted: 12:38 AM ET
Two years of politics, campaigns, and all the rest. I was ready for this to be over a while back. And tonight was the end of that. At 11p.m. CNN declared Barack Obama the winner. We, as a nation, made history tonight. America elected a black president. My grandfather, who was a journalist writing about the civil rights movement in the South in the 1950's and 1960's, could probably never have imagined this day, and yet here it is. We have advanced a national conversation on race and relations between black and white far beyond what I thought we could two years ago. Tomorrow, though is a new beginning. As our new president declared, "This victory alone is not the change we seek – it is only the chance for us to make that change. And that cannot happen if we go back to the way things were. It cannot happen without you. So let us summon a new spirit of patriotism; of service and responsibility where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look after not only ourselves, but each other." So the president-elect has challenged you, the young people of America. What is your next step, what are you going to do? John Martin, Curriculum Writer Filed under: Behind the scenes News Coverage
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