Blogenberg had nothing to say yesterday and last night, the regular Blogenberg posting time. Blogenberg voted (no lines at 7 pm), sat in the front of the TV to watch the results, and could think of nothing to say. What happened — a landslide for a black man — is so distant from the country I grew up in, that I didn’t know what to say.

I grew up when the “n” word was common lingo. Race fights were the norm in my schools. One student was arrested with a gun in his locker. Getting older, dating my now wife, a West Indian woman, we would get stared at on occasion. Just 15 years ago, the KKK had a car in the city fair just 20 minutes up the road.

All I can say is that I was speechless at the revolution.

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