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I voted today. It’s November 4, 2008 and I voted today. I voted as a man who believes that a society can do better by its citizens, and as a boy who still likes to think that anything is possible. I voted as a devoted husband and an overjoyed father who will do anything to try and give my two children a beautiful and inspired world to grow up in.

And I voted for my grandmother, who left South Carolina for New York to work in a government job for 49 years, and then left it all to my mother and me. I looked up to her from behind that curtain, and all was ok…

Smokey D. Fontaine is the chief content officer of InteractiveOne, parent company of NewsOne. Watch for Smokey tonight on TV One! (Check your local cable TV listings for channel information.)