International Transformation

Posted by LisaMurray on November 10, 2008

PRESIDENT Barack Obama!

I have been wanting to make a video blog for 2 weeks now and I just can’t bring myself to do it for one reason or another.  If the timing is right, then I look like shit.  If I look kick ass (haha, by “kick ass” I mean, “not like shit”), then someone comes over or calls or something.  So I guess it’s just not meant to be for the time being.  I am however craving to communicate my inner-most thoughts so this mini-blog will have to do!

I feel like a changed person since the election.  Obama being elected as our President has transformed something deep inside of me.  I feel like for the first time I am connected to the feeling of pride in being an American.  There was always the “ideal” of America but I have been so disappointed in the reality of it.  But all of that changed on November 4, 2008.  Some kind of pure joy and ecstasy gushed out of my pours and washed away my political cynicysm.  In one moment all of my dormant ideals inside came alive and sang and danced along with the rest of the world.  What an amazing feeling.  I can only imagine how black people feel – how black Americans feel but also black people all over the world feel right now.  I have been reading news articles from other countries lately and it’s so cool to realize how much this is impacting the WORLD.  America has been selling this idea of “equality for all” for a long time but who really believed it?  Everyone knows our dirty past.  A past filled with slavery and then severe racism and a system set up to keep black people down.  But my God, people are resilient aren’t they?  Black Americans preservered as a people.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Dr. Martin Luther King’s dream was for a man (and woman) to be judged “not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character” and that happened on November 4th!  The best thing about this election isn’t that a black man was elected President of America, but rather, the BEST man was elected as President and the color of his skin didn’t make people decide to chose someone who wasn’t the best person for the job.    So if you are one of the people stratching your head right now wondering why all the hoopla, this is why okay?  To go from slavery to being a President of the nation that previously enslaved your people is a pretty huge feat and so as a people, and as a nation, this is something to be celebrated!!!!!!!!!!!  This incident has the power to heal so much.  Will we ever forget?  No.  Nor should we.  But we will be healed by this and start to look forward instead of backward.  We have finally broken through a barrier.  We have broken through the barrier of fear in a big way.  On November 4th, America chose HOPE over FEAR.  Intelligence over Experience.  Grace over Sarcasm and Anger.  My god, don’t we all feel transformed?  Don’t YOU feel it?  Well it is clear to me now that if you DON’T feel it, you are now the MINORITY.