I've witnessed some historic things in my life. Jay's "last show" at Madison Square Garden, walking through the streets of NYC during the blackout, holding it down in Brooklyn during the transit strike, the Pittsburgh Steelers winning the Super bowl, I'm talking history! Not even a never-ending Jay-Z concert could top what I experienced last week during the Democratic National Convention.

From the protests and other clashes, between the oppressed and the oppressors, to random celebrity sightings if you weren't in Denver during the Democratic National Convention and could have been, you lost. Unofficially beginning with the Rock the Bells show, which is a story unto itself, and culminating with the Obama speech at Invesco, it was a busy time. Here are the highlights.

Sunday morning- The official DNC kick-off event, an interfaith gathering of leaders from all over the country. A friend of mine was a featured singer, so I parlayed my contact into a nice spot right down front. As you can imagine, it was church and the Wells Fargo Theater filled up quickly and easily with delegates and other states-folk. The interesting thing? The 10 or so protestors who stood up at random times yelling "Obama= Abortion!" The funny thing? Watching the riot police wade through the sea of church hats and yarmulkes with their battalions to tackle the crazies.

Sunday afternoon-Leaving the Interfaith event with the cronies and heading over to have a quick afternoon drink (hey, I'm on vacation dammit) we literally stumbled upon the largest convergence of protestors thus far. The Immigrant Rights Coalition merging with the Anti-War cats, World Can't Wait, and a ton of heated anarchists shut Broadway and Colfax (a major intersection in Denver) DOWN. Orange and Black flags were waving everywhere. Resistance from the participants mixed with the rage and disgust of the police special ops force made for interesting pictures. $50 million worth of security, I bet they couldn't wait to sack a motherfucker. The protest ended with a scuffle and a couple of arrests.

Sunday evening-After scooping my damn press credential (what's a sister gotta do to get something on time?) we head over to the Green Party's version of the DNC at Cleo Parker Robinson's dance studio. Cynthia McKinney, her running mate Rosa Clemente, Amy Goodman from Democracy Now, and Cindy Sheehan, the woman who laid in a ditch in front of Bush's Crawford Ranch to protest her son's death in the Iraq war, were all in attendance. Cynthia McKinney had this to say about the Presidential election,

"I've seen an activist community that is unafraid to face the police here. I've seen young people take to the streets, they put their bodies on the line very much the same way the protestors in the Civil Rights movement did. I saw police officers on horseback, just like in Selma, Alabama on Bloody Sunday. To see a repeat, really and at the same time it was hopeful that young people were willing to put their bodies on the line, even in face of violence from the state."

When asked if putting your body on the line in hope to create a change is the answer, McKinney replied 'it's the only way.'

Cindy Sheehan told an interesting story of walking into her hotel room in downtown Denver and finding the door wide open. Sheehan then says she found a man holding her hotel room phone in one hand and a screwdriver in the other…Interesting.

The most Hip Hop related aspect of the meeting was my interview with Rosa Clemente. During the interview I asked Clemente what type of support she was getting in the hip-hop community, and her response was,

"Well, Nas and Mos support Obama. My goal is to meet the Hip Hop that's not marketed, the Hip Hop that's not male dominated, the Hip Hop that is activist. Within Hip Hop, there's a co-optation taking place within activist movement that is happening because the Democrats are seeing the power of the Hip Hop nation and the only thing they can do is co-op it by funding it. So it's hard to fight that kind of monster but on the other hand with in Hip Hop people have make choices because at this point you're either gonna be on this side or on the other side it's pretty clear that there are no other options. Either you're gonna be with the Democrats or the Republicans are you're gonna be on, like Cindy [Sheehan] said the right side of what's going on. I think Hip Hop in itself there's going to be a split between people who are activist and progressives and will follow women of color and will debate and will have the working class analysis and that includes immigrant brothers and sisters who are moving and I think that's important and other people will move, as they go."

Monday morning- After preparing my most capable outfit, form fitting black pants, purple high neck sleeveless jawn and my "sex me but respect me" black pumps, I took my place at the Response to HIV/AIDS panel alongside Phil Wilson of the Black AIDS Institute, Cheryl Lee Ralph (one of the original Dreamgirls) and many others to provide our assessment of the epidemic.

Monday Afternoon-After reconnecting with the cronies, we decided to roll through the city and scope out the haps. What we ran into was a clash of the masses. Sunsara Taylor from Revolution Magazine was on the mike speaking on the illness of this Electoral College thang. I took my place off to the side, as my most grown up outfit didn't mesh well with the grunge looking bad asses that were down for whatever. Basically, I looked like the fuzz.

It didn't take long before the anti-gay protestors started protesting the other protest, prompting the abortion protestors to gather and begin a secondary protest…in short there was a lot of yelling.

The morning of the big speech, I gathered with the queens in an impromptu cipher to both give thanks and share excitement. Walking a total of two hours to get through security and finally our seats, we shared a brief victory dance, threw our "champion arms" up and started enjoying the show.

You don't need me to tell you, Kanye's told you, Oprah's told you and you've seen it yourself. Nothing short of amazing. It was Jay who said, "if difficult takes a day, impossible takes a week." While not in the bag, Barack Obama is clearly on the road to the unfathomable.