A Wonderful and Spontaneous Realization

As I was walking into a store with two sets of double doors, an African-American man stepped ahead of me. He opened the outer door for himself, started inside, then quickly realized he had let the door close on me. He stopped, turned, apologized and held the inner door open for me. Our eyes met and we flashed smiles at each other, genuine smiles. As we looked into each others' eyes, I saw something I still cannot completely define. The closest I can come to putting into words what I sensed that brief moment is what I will call mutual post-racial understanding and joy. It was though we were affirming each other with our eyes and with our smiles. I knew that he knew that his black-ness didn't matter to me and he knew that I knew that my white-ness did not matter to him. For a few seconds, we celebrated that we were no longer black and white. Two strangers looked at each other and acknowledged we are now color blind.

May every Republican, every Democrat and every Independent work to support our new President, Barack Obama, and may we join together to rebuild our great country. God bless President Obama and his family. God bless the United States of America.