Week 8: What Black Women Want

I found this article from the online version of The Wall Street Journal.
The League of Black Women's Role in President Obama's Administration: Homecoming

Last update: 6:12 p.m. EST Nov. 13, 2008
CHICAGO, Nov 13, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Leave it to Whoopie Goldberg to put the 2008 election into terms that resonate with Black women. The day after Barack Obama's presidential campaign victory, "The View" co-host said she felt like she could finally "put down her suitcase." The long years of feeling like an itinerant traveler were finally over.
In a nation where League of Black Women's national research survey, Fostering the Leadership Potential of Black Women In America, reports that only 56.8% of Black women surveyed believed that they were likely to reach their own leadership potential, we worked together to help lift and elect Barack Obama to the highest office in the land.
Black women pushed doubt and fear to the side and dug deep for the courage to stand and toil in battleground states where, "African American women, in particular played a large role in this election," said Erica Williams of the Institute for Women's Policy Research. In Indiana and North Carolina, Republican heavy states that Obama won, Black women voted 90 percent and 100 percent respectively for Obama.
The League of Black Women, a longtime national advocate for bringing Black women's leadership talents into all areas of the larger society, believes this is our moment too.
We want jobs and for Black women to demand the higher career opportunities that showcase the full potential of their talents and abilities.
We want many more Black women to run for political office. Public service desperately needs our distinctive innovation.
We want unprecedented funding for education as a specific way to leverage investment in Black children, as national treasures, who have unlimited potential to contribute to leadership in our society.
You've watched this amazing election unfold for two years, don't blink now. The President-elect has promised to talk directly to you. Pay attention. Call, email and write your legislators. Tell them exactly how you want them to vote on funding health care, education, and your jobs in this economy.
As Whoopie reminds us, it's time to kick the unwelcome mat to the side, put down our suitcases and unpack. The national household is a mess, and we have much to do, but as of November 4, 2008, we are finally home.
Sandra Finley is President and CEO of The League of Black Women a national organization, based in Chicago. 708-754-1676
SOURCE The League of Black Women
http://www.leagueofblackwomen.org

With Barack Obama being elected president, African Americans are feeling some sort of accomplishment. Especially African American women are feeling that they have a better chance of accomplishing their own goals. They are not necessarily interested in political careers, but just better career opportunities in general even though they would like to see more black females in political positions. I am interested in seeing what the new "First Lady" will do with her new positio.