Ella Mae Johnson, a former social worker who turns 105 on Jan. 13, says she’ll be there in her wheelchair no matter the weather to see the nation’s first black president sworn into office.

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Johnson, who was born in Dallas, experienced and overcome racial prejudice in America throughout the last century. But she sees Obama as sending a message that goes deeper than just setting an example of what African-Americans can accomplish.

The centenarian is more impressed with Obama’s young family, his willingness to show affection to wife, Michelle, and daughters and his roots, through his father, to Kenya.

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