Tonight marked a significant shift in the world... a tremendous societal change the full impact of which we haven't seen yet. Although I don't love all that Obama represents as a politician, I think he's one of the great orators of our time, and a brilliant figurehead whom I greatly respect, I personally am overwhelmed by the fact that America, a nation still so wrought with hatred and prejudice, was able to put that aside and in a solid majority vote a black man into the highest office of power.
I'm a big Bob Marley fan, and the words of the song "War" always ring through my head. The song recants the words of Emperor Selassie's speech to the UN: "Until the color of a man's skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes, there is war." Neither Selassie nor Marley lived to see that day, but today, it arrived. And in January, a black man will hold the most powerful position in the world.
The significance of this event will unfold over years, possibly even generations. We won't see the end of racism in a day, or a year, or even a decade, but today, we took a huge step in that direction... breaking down an invisible wall that has separated the world for centuries.
As a business owner, the election of Obama will hurt me financially, but as a human being, I know that the unity of the human race is vastly more important than the rat race.