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On Tuesday Barack Obama has won the presidential election. What does this mean to us?

First of all, he is the first Afro-American president of the United States. This means a lot to Afro-American people who have been oppressed socially and financially throughout the history of the United States. This is really something to celebrate for them. He will be written in the history for them to be proud of, for them to realize everything is really possible now, and for more of them to try harder to penetrate the social barrier, if there is any. However, it is more than about Afro-American. If you broaden the picture, he is the first minority president. As he is giving not only Afro-American people but every minority in the United States the hope and possibility. He is truly the first step of all possibilities to minorities.

Apart from who Barack Obama is, this election is also about people’s power. This election realizes that when we work together, anything can be done. We have to realize that Obama has a large range of support from ordinary people and grass-root organizations. This brings us another hope; people’s power.

What else? Change. People want the change. People are sick and tired of how things are done in old way, how government is being dysfunctional in many social issues. This election is about change.

It reminds to be seen how Obama administration will execute all the promises he had made during the campaign. Will there be change? Will American society change? Will the foreign policy change towards more cooperative dialog solution? I don’t know. No one knows. Thus we need to keep on watching. Obama knows how powerful people are. We will have to keep let him know that we are watching and we will tell him if he is not going to the right way. I want to believe that he will listen to us.