Oprah speaks of hyperbole

I watched a clip of Oprah being interviewed last Tuesday as the nation voted in our 44th president. The results were not even in yet and the interviewer posed the question. What does this night mean for you. Oprah said there are not even words to talk about what the night means for her. She said that the word historic keeps being said, but that there has never been a night like this on the planet earth. Nothing can compare to this. I understand her sentiment and get the reference to the first black president of the United States. In no way am I diminishing the acheivement of overcoming racism to reach the highest office in the nation. I do find it a rediculous statement to say there has never been a night like this in the history of the earth. The reason being it places so much importance on ourselves. We become the qualifying ingredient for the greatness of the moment. Would the moment be any less great if she were not there? Or if she were white? It isn't about Oprah bashing, it is about how we have all become egocentric. So we could all agree that the earth is not the center of the universe, but we've begun to think even smaller than that, we now think we are.