# @angelarye on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BBQFH9dFS9r
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/6365244-angelarye-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/64007abf36.jpg
- **Posted:** 2016-02-01T17:00:16.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** a. rye (@angela_rye) — https://gondola.cc/angela_rye

## Caption

It's the very first day of #BlackHistoryMONTH and it's also #iowacaucus day. In the spirit of both, today's #BLACKfact takes us to January 3, 2008 when Barack Hussein Obama became the first Black person to win an Iowa Caucus, which was the first step to his historic journey to 1600 Pennsylvania. Excerpts from his amazing speech that night follow... "You know, they said this day would never come...[much later in the speech] Years from now, you'll look back and you'll say that this was the moment, this was the place where America remembered what it means to hope. For many months, we've been teased, even derided for talking about hope. But we always knew that hope is not blind optimism. It's not ignoring the enormity of the tasks ahead or the roadblocks that stand in our path.

It's not sitting on the sidelines or shirking from a fight. Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it and to work for it and to fight for it." -POTUS @barackobama

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## Credits

| Name | Username | Profile | Role |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| a. rye | @angela_rye | https://gondola.cc/angela_rye | Talent |

## Tags

iowacaucus, blackhistorymonth, blackfact

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