Ann Nixon Cooper to Obama's win in 2008 US Election: After a while we will all be one

Ann Nixon Cooper, the oldest voter who voted Barack Obama in the historic 2008 US Presidential Election feels relieved that election of Obama in the presidential race symbolises the change she has been waiting for. 

As reported in CNN news, Ann Nixon Cooper was born past the generation of the slavery. Those were the days that Cooper cannot vote because of two striking reasons - being a woman, and being black.

But now, she witnessed in her lifetime that the first African-American President is elected in the most powerful positions in the world. The 106-year-old Cooper patiently awaits President Obama's acceptance speech as someone tipped her that she will be mention in Obama's speech and that moment happened.

In Obama's speech about Cooper's witnessing the history of her times, and our times, he mentioned that "Tonight, I think about all that she's seen throughout he century in America - the heartache and the hope; the struggle and the progress; the times we were told that we can't, and the people who pressed on with that American creed: Yes we can!"

Obama, a symbol of hope

This election day 4th of November defines a symbolic and historic dream come true when American voters casted their votes beyond colour of the skin. President-elect Barack Hussein Obama would become the 44th American President on 20 January 2009, and the first African-American President of the United States of America. 

It’s a chilling experience to watch President-elect Obama in television speaking in front of thousands of his supporters. It’s so thrilling to witness that in my lifetime a symbol of hope for many especially for the poor, marginalised, and minorities is already at the hands of the world. Yes, America has a come along way to show that nothing is impossible to change the history for good and for better. This is a new era that we have waited so much. 

I am not an American. But seeing President-elect Obama to sit on one of the most powerful positions in the world, I can’t help but to rejoice that it is a beginning of a new era of change, democracy, and equality. It may not be in my own country, but a Big Hope sprung that someday in other parts of the world including in my homeland, a change for justice, peace, and equality is possible. 

I may be just an ordinary citizen in a very small town, but President-elect Obama is an inspiration. I would like to extend my family support and goodwill to the change that you will lead in Washington and overseas.