Depression is an expression of the  loss of hope and situational depression which is being experienced by many African Americans follows a traumatic change to life, some familiar examples which may trigger situational depression are divorce, death or loss of a job. In this current environment of the exit of the era of hope of Obama, there is a sense of a death of an idea and loss of a person, the first Black president.

But Despite this passing storm,  We Have Come This Far By Faith,  and this too shall pass.