THE SECOND INAUGURATION OF BARACK OBAMA

Long day, Ill write my thoughts in the morning

It is hard for me to even write about yesterday, although everyone else has been. Yes, I had high expectations, but just out of  the seeming blue:

“We, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths—that all of us are created equal—is the star that guides us still, just as it guided our forebears through Seneca Falls and Selma and Stonewall,”

Scooby Doo head shake! 
Did I really just hear the President of the United States say that IN his Inaugural Address??  In the same breath Seneca Falls, Selma and Stonewall. Did an African American man,the most powerful man in the world just equate Selma and Stonewall ? 

It was not until hours later that in it dawned on me that the three words sailed right over some/many heads. Seneca what?

• Seneca Falls is a tiny little village up here, in upstate NY, where in 1848 a very important meeting on women's equality took place. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Fredrick Douglass .. that set. 
• Selma is a town in Alabama where in 1965 an attack by government officials on peacefully assembled marchers ( on television ) empowered the African American civil rights movement
• Stonewall is a bar in the , its still there, in Greenwich Village NYC where on June 28th 1969 Gay Americans fought back.. for possibly the first time in history, the birth of the LGBT Pride/Equality movement.

President Obama's speech yesterday was a total " that was then this is now " moment in American history. For .. ever, the African American civil rights movement has fought tooth and nail NOT to be included with the lgbt movement.. and too add the woman's suffrage movement. BOOM.

Only to be followed by " Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law - for if we are truly created equal , then 

surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well . "

This was not our Brown v Board moment, that hopefully will be here in June, but it was a first.. and for lgbt Americans a milestone. We will be citizens...