was in the air, repeating the polls for months. Queues at polling stations for hours on end, voter turnout to historic highs. Despite some fear series of "if I do not see do not believe it," History was made before our eyes: Barack Obama is the first African-American president of the United States. Among the thousands of supporters flocked to acclaim in Chicago during his first speech as President , many have succumbed to the emotion. It was a rematch of their children and grandchildren of the victims of hatred, racism and segregation, slander that characterized the United States until the late '60s, when - only then - were repealed discriminatory laws. Because it is never superfluous to remember when not even half a century ago were precluded or limited the number of African Americans basic rights such as access to health care, schools and the world of work is prevented so-called minorities to marry whites with ; were humiliated thousands of people using public transport into ghettos in the back of the bus. These were the years of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King: all this happened fifty years ago, not five hundred.
For these reasons, I can only imagine the joy of last night he could not hold back tears listening to the words of Obama, perhaps thinking back to a parent or a grandparent and a victim of these abuses in the hope that has been torn up once and for all one of the saddest pages of American history.
Can we ever be proud of our country, as were the Americans last night?
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