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"This was something a lot of us won't really understand the significance of this period, probably for some years now," Eagles safety Brian Dawkins said yesterday. "To think we had a woman and an African American running for a party, you give me five years ago, 10 years ago, 20 years ago, that's absolutely totally unheard of, to have so-called minorities running for that office. This is a huge, huge day and time."

Dawkins said he wasn't completely sold on Obama until recently. He doesn't exactly admire the political process and didn't vote because he is registered in Florida.

But that doesn't mean he, as an African American, is overlooking the social significance of Obama's victory.

"I wouldn't be telling you the whole truth if I said it did not [mean more to me]. It did," Dawkins said.

"At the end of the day, I felt like with the views he came across with, I felt like he would be the best person to lead us on out of this mess we're in right now."

Posted on Thu, Jun. 5, 2008 Black players cheer Obama's historic win
By Matt Gelb, Todd Zolecki and Ashley Fox Inquirer Staff Writers
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/sports/20080605_Black_players_cheer_Obama_s_historic_win.html?loc=interstitialskip

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