Heartbroken...

I can't help it - I thought I would be walking on water with an Obama win and yet I'm heartbroken today. As beautiful as this election has been with all of it's historical significance and the real progress that our country has shown in electing a (half) black man in what was quite frankly and electoral college landslide...I'm so happy this happened and yet I feel like we're also going backwards.

In California the passage of Prop 8 denies gay couples the fundamental right to marry. I keep thinking about all of my friends, my former students, the children who are yet to be born who are sent the message "something is wrong with you", "you're not good enough". I wonder what Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would say about this. I'm reminded of his "I have a dream" speech that I used to teach. ...I have a dream that some day my children will be judged not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

To all those in my community - I'll work to fight it, you can count on me.