This morning I once again found myself welling up, but this time it had nothing to do with either Disney or charlotte. I woke up, put the computer on, went to the bbc website, and cheered. I squealed so loud that I was worried rob next door would think something was wrong.

You must know by now that Obama won the American election, and is now the first African-American president of the united states. I never thought I’d see the day; I’d always suspected that there was still an undercurrent of racism in America which would prevent such a thing from happening. I fully expected to be sitting here damning America for electing yet another stupid white man. But I don’t have to, and there’s gonna be a democrat in the white house. And it feels great.

The words of Thomas Jefferson have finally rung true: in America, all men are indeed created equal.