Funny, I'm not smiling. Somehow, the idea that thousands of people who thought they were married now have to wake up and find they aren't, the idea that single people who want to care for foster children now find that they can't -- somehow, none of that makes me smile. I can't imagine what kind of person you are that you could be smiling after Tuesday's devastating results.

Me, I'm angry, sad, depressed. I'm mad at myself because I voted for a man who denies that I am a complete human being, who thinks that I should be satisfied with "separate but equal." I knew I should have voted Green or Libertarian, but I got caught up in the moment and I voted before Obama put his final nail in equality's coffin with his disgusting MTV interview. I'm disgusted with Barack "I do not support gay marriage" Obama, disgusted with the African-Americans and Mormons and Catholics and fundamentalists who voted against equality. And I'm disgusted with your triumphalism in the face of this tragic and deeply hurtful election. For shame.

The elation of Obama's achievement was partially overshadowed by the upwelling of hate represented by Prop 8.

History was made indeed - and it is wonderful to see hope in people's eyes again...

finally... we got a black president now u white muthafuckin bitches gonna bow down you stupid muthfuckers and all yall can suck my damn dick... oh yea my nigga B said yall is some immature ugly ass creatures BITCHES!!!!!!! HAHAHAH

PS: Im a races Black man So dont ever message me you stupid muthafuckers BOW DOWN HOES

Bye

I look at Barrack Obama as the melting pot finally working for all Americans.We can all look at him and see something familiar and hopefully thru that move forward towards an overdue healing.I voted for him not because of what I could personnally gain from him but because it sent the strongest message to my African American neighbors and the world and for us in the lgbt community it means we'll get there hopefully sooner than later.

Monica in response to your comments, "While his mother is white and his father is a Kenyan, the man is a United States citizen. He is one of us, claims us in return and is connected to the African Diaspora through his father. His marriage to Michelle connects Obama and his daughters to a person who is descended from a survivor of the Middle Passage" I have decided to include the following comments from mulatto.org.

"Not to be a further killjoy, but you did ask directly how I feel, so please bear with me...This milestone also comes with a caveat, a footnote. You see, for years (decades?), I have longed for the day we would have our first "Black" President, but the specifics of what my heart desired was someone who was descended from African slaves in America, someone whose parents had lived through the struggle, perhaps even someone who fought for Civil Rights, personally. I never thought that when we got our first "Black"/African-American President there would be an asterisk, know what I'm saying?

first "Black"/African-American* President

*But with a white mother and a Kenyan father.

Ya dig?

While we do indeed have our first "Black" President, like so many other "firsts" for African-Americans, the light skinned brother, preferably the mulatto, had to go first. I'm a mulatto, so that should be fantastic to me, right? Well, I'm also married to a Black man who does not have a white parent, if you see what I'm saying. The black men in my family do not have white parents. What is wrong with being black on both sides of your family? What is wrong with being a descendant of African slaves in the U.S.? When will those "Black" men, the ones with no asterisks, finally be deemed acceptable? (Am I really the only poster to mulatto.org with that perspective?) Barack Obama, I suppose, in this regard will serve as a milestone and also a stepping stone. One can only hope.

We haven't quite arrived, yet. I guess that's all I'm trying to say. But, what Barack Obama has achieved is incredible and I will support him as my President, like all good Americans should."

I agree with this person, "what Barack Obama has achieved is incredible and I will support him as my President, like all good Americans should."

I wish Obama and his administration the wish best. I do so because I love our country. My hope is that our country may also ocme to accept its LGBT child as well as those of color.

It still surprises me how some people place their entire self worth on the ability to get married or not. Do all gay and lesbian people in this country (between 15 and 30 million) want to get married TODAY? Did the world explode when MA allowed same sex marriage, long after several countries had made it legal? Fuck no. Is the world going to explode because you can't get married in CA any longer. Fuck no. Are gay and lesbian people willing to trade their ability to keep their jobs over their right to get married. Seems like many are.

So, you can't get married in California any longer. BFD. But, you still have a job and employment protection in California, right? All of you Californians should be awful damn thankful you don't live in places like where I do. Not only can I not get married here in Georgia, but we have no hate crimes legislation, no insurance protection for trans people, no law preventing the panic defense AND no employment protect, ALL of which you have there. Sometimes it really pisses me off when Californians whine about "what we lost." My heart bleeds for you. Come live in Georgia for awhile and you will be damn happy to get back to where your job is protected.

I have a dream for America, and the entire world to boot, and president-elect Obama's victory is one step toward that. My dream is not that little white and black and all other kids will play together, my dream is that all brown kids will play together one day.

I love the diversity of cultures, and I wholeheartedly believe in the desire to keep cultures alive and unique. Having said that, I believe that the world is changing in many ways, and we are just at the cusp of it. Our children are going to know a United States where there are many more visible "mulattoes" or whatever derogatory term you want to affix to "racially impure" people. In much of the Americas, the mixing of the races is a given with indigenous people's blood mixing with African, European, and Asian blood. Get over the Purity of race thing, already! In the future, we will all be shades of brown, and that is wonderful, too. We can lay claim to many cultural heritages or ignore them altogether as we please. Go back far enough in anyone's family, anywhere on the globe, and you will find that there is no purity of race, only the ebb and flow of a common humanity.

Barack Obama is the face of the United States, his is the face of the future, but then so are ours. As a third-generation American, my family hasn't branched out so much, ethnically, on this side of the world but still I have Germanic, Slavic, Pictish, Gallic, Sarmatian, Semitic, and Mongolian heritages. I've pink-ish olive skin (try matching a foundation for that) ,so I pretty much have to mark the "caucasian" box on a census form.

Nothing in all of creation is simple, so why embrace simplistic definitions of identity based solely upon the tone of skin?

I am sorry if this is rambling and incoherent, I've been up for 21 hours.

I'll put out a prediction now that the first woman president will be a conservative Republican.

OK, now let's see me proven wrong!

One of the most stirring images of the end of this election was CNN interviewing a classroom of children. One young (12 tops) black boy was trying to act tough in front of his friends while they were being interviewed, but when it was his turn he broke down in tears when he sobbed, "If Barack Obama can become President, then I can. It's not a lie that anyone can be President someday."

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Please don't let it happen again; we expect better of Projectors.

Bil,
That young boy saying that made me cry. It took me back to my elementary school days when I hurt one of my teacher's feelings by sarcastically answering the same 'you can be anything you want in America' exhortation with the comment "except president of the United States".

No longer will any African-American, much less any child of color be able to say that. The pool of presidential candidates has forever been broadened.

The next four years should be quite interesting, indeed.