Yesterday morning, Joe Biden & Kamala Harris were announced as the winners of the U.S. Presidency and Vice Presidency. To celebrate, we jumped in our car at 11am and drove around Berkeley, honking our horn at everybody we encountered, especially at impromptu gatherings of other celebrants who were banging pots and pans and making general merriment.
After circling the campus and downtown area twice, we found a little street party in front of a boutique hotel of the gourmet ghetto. Celebrants were dancing in the streets to music blaring over a portable loud speaker. We joined the celebration, dancing, clapping, and hollering jubilantly at the passing traffic. Not since before the beginning of this COVID-19 lockdown in the last eight months, have I been so privy to see so many brilliant and maskless smiles (from within the safety of passing cars). This joyous occasion and wonderful day, marked with countless cheers and merry-making amongst strangers, was an experience that so many of us needed after months of illness, isolation, death, and denial. After this first street party broke up, we drove around town and found another impromptu party on the corner of MLK & Berryman with more people dancing in the street. Altogether, we danced and cheered for about three hours.
The shock of this wonderful news and exhilaration for the end of the nightmare still hasn’t worn off. Here’s hoping for a productive four years.
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