Last night five of us stood in our room talking about the president elect. While my roommate cried you could tell the deepness of her emotion came from her stomach because she would hunch her shoulders over, as though in pain. But as she did this she was thanking God over and over again. My other white housemates and I could not fully understand my roommate's experience although we celebrated with her. She told us she had pictures of Rosa Parks, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Harriet Tubman in her head -- those who had come before.
Obama made a comparable comment in a March 2008 speech:
"What's remarkable is not how many failed in the face of discrimination, but rather how many men and women overcame the odds; how many were able to make a way out of no way for those like me who would come after them."
The struggle is not over. Racism and discrimination are not merely history. But I praise God, who is reconciling all things to himself through Jesus, for how far we've come.
Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. -Romans 13:1
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