From CNN: "Ann Nixon Cooper, 106 years old, has seen presidents come and go in her lifetime and has outlived most of them. On a sunny fall morning, she left her weathered but well-kept Tudor home in Atlanta, Georgia, to vote early — this time for [Senator] Barack Obama. Ann Nixon Cooper, 106 years old, lived during a time when Blacks and women did not have the right to vote. The African-American centenarian remembers a time not long ago when she was barred from voting because of her race. Now she hopes to see the day that Obama is elected as the nation's first Black president. 'I ain't got time to die,' Cooper said with a smile. 'Even if he [doesn't] win, I was happy for him just to be nominated,' said the former socialite. 'The first Black president — isn't that something, at 106 years old?'"
I really hope Senator Obama wins just so people like Ann Nixon Cooper can see what was once only a dream to some people and the unimaginable to others. My father never would imagine that a “colored man” would be president whereas; my mother always said that one day things are going to change. I dearly love for them to be alike to experience this.
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