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Awakening

By The Daily Dish

Jan 4 2008, 6:43 AM ET

A reader writes:

My phone has been ringing off the hook, with nothing but screams from my Black friends and family: a "HE WON", and then an "I'll talk to you tomorrow".

My mother, born in Jim Crow Mississippi in 1930, just shook her head - she couldn't believe it.

Believe it. In snow-white Iowa. This moment has been a long time coming. And the wheel of American history just moved forward.



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