One of the most uplifting accomplishments of Barrack Obama’s win is the fact that it illustrates how far the American people have come in terms of race relations. A New York Times reporter wrote an article concerning those who participated in the civil rights movements and their reaction to Obama’s win. I cannot even imagine the amount of astonishment and joy those are feeling who were supporters of the civil rights movement. If you think about it, as The New York Times points outs, there are the people that were beat to death, and had their lives threatened just to have the right to vote and TODAY an African American man is president. In some aspects, it seems as though everything that happened to them was worth it for our generation today. We can finally see that the American people are taking strides in the right direction and those that suffered so many years ago can finally reap the fruits of their labor.