Last night in Denver Colorado The Democratic National Party nominated Barack Obama as their nominee to run for the Presidency of the United States of America.

This makes him the first African American to receive a nomination from one of the two major parties. Regardless of politics, this is truly wonderful. And I would be saying this if it were one of the Republicans. My father called shortly afterwards and he was clearly humbled by the whole situation. He said recalling the race riots in his School’s (Brooklyn College) cafeteria, that it seems unreal to him that in his life this could happen.

What is most amazing to me is that it almost doesn’t matter. It wasn’t until a few hours later, when I was falling asleep, that I remembered his race.  There are only two people left who can be president, and one of them is black. Yet we are still a racist country (look no further then Eric Shive’s article in the Cornell Review’s current issue).

I suppose that despite our failings, we should find hope in what happened last night no matter where on the political spectrum we find ourselves.  We are after all moving forward.