One of my family’s dear friends, Wilma Hogan, who writes the Hogans blog, alerted me to a post on Faith – In Living Color about the inauguration of President Obama.

It is a remarkable articulation of what President Obama’s inauguration means not only to African Americans but to all Americans, with appropriate warnings and considerations (hero worship, etc.).

I’m glad she encouraged me to read it, and I now encourage you to read it.

I posted this on my other blog, but I think it is worth posting here as well.

Whether you are black, white; Republican, Democrat; conservative, liberal; or whatever your affiliation(s), today is a day we can all be proud of.

The inauguration of our first African-American President is historic. It is on par with the Civil War, the Great Depression, and landing on the moon as far as I am concerned. Admittedly, I didn’t vote for Barack Obama, but I will be proud to call him President Obama. I didn’t vote for George W. Bush either, but by the end of his presidency, after all the hits, both personally and politically, he took, I was proud to call him President Bush, much to my own surprise.

I think there’s truth to the notion that “Washington changes people, people don’t change Washington.” But, the inauguration of Barack Obama as President certainly changes America.

I know parents tell their children that they can be anything they want to be, but, in moments of downright honesty, I wonder if everyone who says that really believes it.

I think it is a little more believable today.