Minutes ago, before I dropped my three beautiful black children off at school, we had a lengthy discussion about the historic significance of this day – the first black man will be sworn in and become the 44th president of the United States of America. 

This is only possible because many years ago black people (there were whites who too fought for justice), who were disenfranchised through slavery, Jim Crow laws, and segregation, dug deep and planted seeds of racial equality, freedom, and justice in the good soil God's ideal, as it was penned in Holy Scripture, and in the good soil of the American dream as it was written in the Declaration of Independence:  All men are created equal and have inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. 

These seeds were watered with marches, sit-ins, beatings, narrow jails, lynching, burning crosses, nonviolent demonstrations and violent and senseless deaths. Ah, but the rich blood and briny tears of our foreparents nourished and continue to nourish those seeds year after year, decade after decade and millennium after millennium. They planted and watered, knowing some very important laws of agriculture – you always get what you plant, the harvest takes God's blessing, exposure, and time and patience.    

Today, when Barack Obama is sworn in as the 44th President of the United States of America, we will be experiencing a significant, historic, and unprecedented harvest in this country, of many, many years of planting, watering, fertilizing and cultivating the dream of freedom, racial equality and justice. 

Tell me how you feel about this historic event.