Obama Won! But . . .

I have so many mixed emotions! He won!
But . . . why should there be a but?

Because I still heard nigga the next morning. I still saw black men on the corner who had the nerve to say "Obama won my nigga!" I still felt like an opressed black woman when I woke up still struggling to pay my bills. Still having to walk into an office where I'm looked at as less than.
I never thought I'd see the day when a Black man would be elected President of the USA . . . not in my day . . .not even in my daughter's

But . . .why should there be a but?
Because that day I thought I'd never see has come and I want to be happy I want to be optimistic but I am finding it hard because I receive daily messages about Mayor Bloomberg's Budget Cuts that will impact not only the quality of my daughter's schooling but could mean that I will not have a job soon. Why do they always cut schools and child services programs when we need them most?

In hard economic times you'd think we want to save our most helpless first, children can not teach themselves or care for themselves.

Working families depend on public schools and after school programs, yet we cut them first?

I only hope that Obama will ease my anxiety with plans and legislation
that will force Bloomberg to rethink his cuts to schools and child services and find other places to make cut backs.

Our children deserve better.

Our children deserve the hope Obama Promised.

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