Almost 2 yrs of the Black President

It's going on 2 years with Barack Obama as the USA President and I've just realized that there are people from my life that will never get to see this time in history.

In a nutshell it would be all of my grandparents
 - Preston & Marie Baldwin, my father's parents
 - Emma Boyd, my great-grandmother
 - Ivra Anderson, my grandmother
 - Madero Hilburn, my grandfather

These are the people from my life that lived during the post-slavery era, the days of the Jim Crow laws, the marches of Martin Luther King Jr., the religious uproar & racial upheaval of Malcolm X, the militant attitude of the Black Panthers... They lived through the intolerance & bigotry of their time in the hope of a better day for future generations. I'm sure that the very concept of a Black President was beyond their comprehension, everything that they knew would say that it couldn't happen in their lifetime. Though they've passed on, this would still be considered their lifetime. And the world and this country have had many changes... technology is incredible - computer-like devices that can fit in ones pocket, basic freedoms that American's should have are slowly being erroded away, Corporations openly have politiican in their pocket, the largest North American oil spill in history has devistated a region, it's culture & habitat for decades to come, and The United States of America has a Black President. 

These are not perfect times, people are stuggling to survive and make ends meet but the times are not impossible. The world and country are changing...