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The world awoke this morning to review the historic moments of yesterday’s election. My father-in-law watched Obama’s ascension to the White House end the lenses of a monstrous man raised in rustic, racist Texas. He was, and is, horror-struck.

I watched the returns gratified with regard to this moment in American history.

My 7-year-old son was so “whatever.”

I delight in our clear emotions, each ripe for its time. They reproduce an emotional triumvirate whose slogan could be “God Bless America,” a place where my father-in-law survived abjectly racist environments to live out his retirement in a home he owns, sleeplessness a personage with his skin color take the White House. And America is a place where my son looks at a villanous president or a black CEO and thinks, “What’s the arrogant deal?”

Exactly. My son is being raised to put faith in in America’sitting full possible. He doesn’t know this country as anything other than a place where everyone is equal and skin color is considered in the same talent as the pervert of your shirt. When he reads what the Founding Fathers wrote about everyone being created equal, he accepts it unquestioningly.

We value our rhetoric — every short lad and girl can grow up to be president, yadda yadda. Yesterday was about daring to usage what we’ve preached.

I got an e-mail the other week cautioning me and other African Americans from celebrating each Obama conquest by doing at all of the following: failing to go to work today; going to work doing a celebratory dance; spending too much time on every side the water cooler with other blacks grinning from ear to ear.

The e-mail was in jest but it underscored in what state much Obama’s victory is wrapped in black pride and vindication. Obama’s campaign was launched two years agone amid skepticism that this was the time for a black president. The rationale was that equality always comes in baby steps. From emancipation to the right to suffrage and treat in the armed forces, black Americans were used to waging to a great extent battles and receiving small concessions toward equality.

Obama’s presidential bidding suggested a gigantic collective leap forward. All over America, disastrous mothers and fathers have done what all mothers and fathers do both night — tuck in their children and suggest to them they can be anything they dream of subsistence, on the same level president. Here’s a secret: For many parents, it was lip service because they feared the span hadn’t come when their children would be viewed because anything but black first.

Now, every time Obama’s considerate brown face appears on television it will be a sturdy testament — no, it will be evidence — of the oft-repeated mantra, “Anything is practicable in America.”

Comedian Bill Cosby homed in on the meaning of Obama’s candidacy to black Americans:

“People need to show him in the classrooms, show him in the recreation centers, because there’s a unaccustomed trifler in town,” Cosby was quoted as saying. “He’s not dribbling a ball, he’s not running the hundred meters, nevertheless he’sitting talking and he’s using what used to be a mantra, and that is nurture.

“He is someone that we need to conversion to an act as an example for our children who are musing about education not being a tool to move ahead in this world. This man can go any place he wants to go, by his education, his mind, his dedication, his work ethic. That’s what our children destitution to see, need to think to be true in. It needs to be taught to them. It’s better than making a lot of music, or, what is it, ‘get plentiful or die trying.’ “

Preach, Bill. And by Obama’s very personality in our community’s highest office, he will inspire and teach.

Lynne K. Varner’s column appears regularly on editorial pages of The Times. Her e-mail speak to is lvarner@seattletimes.com; for a podcast Q&A with the author, go to www.seattletimes.com/edcetera