Part I  Listening Task

Script for the recording:

As I watched the election results on the big screen with my family Tuesday night and heard the announcement that the 44th president of the United States would be Barack Obama, I found myself fighting back tears as I thought of just how far we have come as a country.

I thought about growing up in the Deep South and about my grandparents, who lived in a racist-governed Alabama.

I thought about never having a school textbook on the first day of the new school year that didn't already have someone else's name written in it.

I thought about that day in seventh grade world history class when a white classmate shouted, "I'm glad they got that King guy," on the morning after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. That was the only fight I was ever involved in.

I thought about my single-parent mom working as a maid for most of her life, leaving her home to clean other people's homes and wash their clothes just to feed her six children.

I thought about in the early years of my journalism career being sent to cover a city council meeting and having to explain why I was there that I was a part of the news media.

But Tuesday night, Nov. 4, 2008, showed me that if you persevere, anything is possible. That things can change and will change if we would work together as one, believe in each other and look beyond our differences. Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008, said that it is our differences that make us who we are and what we can be as a people and as a nation.

After Listening

1. Barack Obama had become the 44th president of the United States

2. he thought of just how far they have come as a country

3. racial discrimination

4. persevere, anything  

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