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 It started out looking just like the photo would indicate. We won! We voted, and we actually won. We were excited that our thoughts counted, our ideas were going to amount to something, that the students at Howard were crying, that we were too...we screamed out the windows, and our neighbors did too. We ran in the street banging our pots, but in our Orthodox Jewish neighborhood we were the only people making noise like that. Then it got quiet. Prop 8 looked like it was going to pass, and as we now know, it did. The Obama win is not as glorious as it should be, because there is so much discrimination in our country that offends and outrages me. I originally planned a big celebration at for my office, but instead, brought some pastries and allowed everyone to take what they wanted as they felt like it. Prop 8 crushed my excitement. I'm hoping for better days to come knowing that Obama is a decent man who gets people to think better of themselves and others, hoping that soon my friends and mentors will all have the same rights that I get to enjoy. I'm really grossed out by the sheer stupidity, and unfairness of it all...that this country can finally elect someone that is not only qualified, but also black, and then steal the rights of so many great and wonderful people who are gay.
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