So I’m a little late to the posting party for stuff from the craziness that was election night 2008 in DC, but here are a couple YouTube videos of things happening at 14th and U Street NW:

U Street crazy fun part 1

U Street crazy fun part 2

One of the most inspiring things about this crazy impromptu rally is that it’s happening in the same place where protesters gathered in 1968 after news of MLK’s assassination spread around DC. That protest quickly became the DC riots of 1968, in which $27 million dollars (not adjusted for inflation) worth of damage was done and the military eventually occupied the District under orders from LBJ. To see and be a part of such a huge celebration of unabashed happiness 40 years later, in the exact same place, on the night of the election of the nation’s first black president, was a really special thing.