What The Election Of Barack Obama Means To Me…

I would like to start off by admitting that, as a Brit, about 90% of this election has gone right over my head. The only things that really stretched all the way over to this side of the Atlantic were the racism, mud-slinging and SNLoL appearances [Website – Amy Grindhouse].

TODAY HOWEVER, DID NOT GO OVER MY HEAD.

I have to start by telling y’all the single most important thing about today’s news; my mother is EFFING EXCITED today, in ways that a mid-40’s fairly conservative Nigerian woman should probably not be. She is so happy that someone, whose heritage is of the same continent as her, is in such a powerful position in (foreign) office. However, this is most likely because, she has somehow come believe that Obama and she are close-kin, but that is a sit down conversation for my mum and I to have later

Today is important, as the world is not quite the same place as when I went to sleep yesterday.

Today I awoke in a world where someone who looks like he could be a brother or uncle of mine, is the 44th President of the United States of America. My mother, little golden-brown brothers and I, shall never look at the world in quite the same way again.

This news is ground-breaking, historic and earth-shaking, all in the same breath. So much so, that for the next 24-hours, until this rockin’ news sinks in, I reserve the right to play fast-and-loose with the rules of English syntax and grammar, until the jubilation wares me out (or until I collapse from exclamation mark overuse)!!!!!!!

Hang on a sec.

I should probably try to add some facts into this post, eh? Um… OK. What’cha want? A breakdown of who won which states (thanks to MSNBC). That do ya? K. Here you go!

A BREAKDOWN OF ALL THE STATES THAT BARACKED THE VOTE AND MADE MY MAMA HAPPY (thanks to MSNBC)

YES WE DID! YES WE DID! YES WE DID! YES WE DID! YES WE DID! YES WE DID!

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