I was just seeing the vitriol there, particularly between Black and white America. I could see how divided we were on social media feeds. At the same time, I kept hearing people say that we were now entering a post-racial era, because we had a Black president, and I knew that was not true. He cast his last vote for Obama he died about two weeks after the election. I convinced him to vote early, which he did. My father was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer in 2008. And it was very hopeful for me too, kind of bittersweet. It was a time of such palpable hope for a lot of people in the country, because we were transcending a barrier by electing a Black president for the first time. I was inspired by the events of 2008 with the presidential election of Barack Obama. A: I actually started writing it around 2013.
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