Clerk Dorothy Brown Praises Obama Victory
During her election night celebration, Clerk Brown leads applause for Obama win
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“This is his day,” Clerk Brown said to her cheering supporters, regarding Obama. “But it is our time!”
Clerk Brown spoke emotionally about the fact that President Elect Obama carries the hopes, dreams and aspirations of all the individuals who have come before—especially the descendents of African slaves and poor black, Southern sharecroppers, the murdered civil rights workers and hoards of tireless marchers and demonstrators—who valiantly struggled for equal opportunity in America over the course of hundreds of years. She also spoke of her deceased mother and father, both of whom she said, “faced discrimination courageously and literally worked themselves to death, so that their eight children could have a better life.”