Jesse Jackson, dry your tears.
They say that Martin Luther King Jr had the heart of a sixty year old man. At the time of his death, he was only thirty-nine.
Though I'm sure there's a plethora of medical and scientific reasons for this, I can't help but wonder that maybe he was enlightened in a way that the rest of us simply weren't. Perhaps he was even (dare I say it?) divine. Or perhaps, and quite probably, it was simply the weight of all the injustices in the world. Perhaps he aged a little extra every time he witnessed the breeching of civil rights. And by the time he had reached thirty-nine, his soul was simply as tired and jaded as a sixty year old man.
Perhaps it simply meant that it was time for him to go. That he would have died some other way if James Earl Ray had never pulled the trigger.
Barack Obama is forty-seven. Does he have the heart of sixty year old man? I hope not; the riots that would ensue is reason enough.
Divine intervention is easy to believe in. Slip into that shell, and you're quite content to leave things be. Perhaps, for some reason, God really did create black people as inferior. Maybe he color-coded his creations. Believe that, and you lose all sense of equality. Personally, I would suggest you see a psychiatrist.
I heard they used an invisible glass barrier in front of the podium for Obama's victory speech. As far as I've heard, there've been no attempts on his life. But it would simply stupid to relax the guard now; the moment he won the democratic primaries, he was a target.
So long after we've alledgedly accepted the concept of racial equality, certain individuals still must take extra caution with their lives because of the color of their skin.But despite all this, we've taken steps forward. Baby steps, to be sure, but they'll build up. For the first time, Americans said "No Thanks" to a traditional old white president in favor of one who is of colored skin and relatively young age. And they did it with 364 votes to 162.
I don't want to play the race card but, that just goes to show something.
The President of the US is the most politically influential figures today. The decision of who takes this position is in the hands of three hundred million people. For years, others have doubted your ability to make that decision. You were called "stupid", "blind". This time around, we breathe a tiny sigh of relief and say, "maybe they can do it right after all."
This election, this isn't just about one single country choosing a new head of state. This is about the tolerence of the entire world moving in the right direction. This is about a step forward of equality: not just racial equality, but all kinds of equality. Religious equality, gender equality, social equality, you name it. Maybe one day, in the distant future, the Earth will no longer be populated by a mix of different races or genders or sexualities, but rather, it will be populated by a homogeneous blend of People.
I'm an optimist by nature. I believe in my heart of hearts that we can fix the economic crisis, climate change, poverty, cancer, AIDS. But realisitically, this would hardly happen without the cooperation of all the people. United we stand, divided we fall. All these problems we face today, can we really solve them for the sake of tomorrow?
I have a dream that yes we can.
Though I'm sure there's a plethora of medical and scientific reasons for this, I can't help but wonder that maybe he was enlightened in a way that the rest of us simply weren't. Perhaps he was even (dare I say it?) divine. Or perhaps, and quite probably, it was simply the weight of all the injustices in the world. Perhaps he aged a little extra every time he witnessed the breeching of civil rights. And by the time he had reached thirty-nine, his soul was simply as tired and jaded as a sixty year old man.
Perhaps it simply meant that it was time for him to go. That he would have died some other way if James Earl Ray had never pulled the trigger.
Barack Obama is forty-seven. Does he have the heart of sixty year old man? I hope not; the riots that would ensue is reason enough.
Divine intervention is easy to believe in. Slip into that shell, and you're quite content to leave things be. Perhaps, for some reason, God really did create black people as inferior. Maybe he color-coded his creations. Believe that, and you lose all sense of equality. Personally, I would suggest you see a psychiatrist.
I heard they used an invisible glass barrier in front of the podium for Obama's victory speech. As far as I've heard, there've been no attempts on his life. But it would simply stupid to relax the guard now; the moment he won the democratic primaries, he was a target.
So long after we've alledgedly accepted the concept of racial equality, certain individuals still must take extra caution with their lives because of the color of their skin.But despite all this, we've taken steps forward. Baby steps, to be sure, but they'll build up. For the first time, Americans said "No Thanks" to a traditional old white president in favor of one who is of colored skin and relatively young age. And they did it with 364 votes to 162.
I don't want to play the race card but, that just goes to show something.
The President of the US is the most politically influential figures today. The decision of who takes this position is in the hands of three hundred million people. For years, others have doubted your ability to make that decision. You were called "stupid", "blind". This time around, we breathe a tiny sigh of relief and say, "maybe they can do it right after all."
This election, this isn't just about one single country choosing a new head of state. This is about the tolerence of the entire world moving in the right direction. This is about a step forward of equality: not just racial equality, but all kinds of equality. Religious equality, gender equality, social equality, you name it. Maybe one day, in the distant future, the Earth will no longer be populated by a mix of different races or genders or sexualities, but rather, it will be populated by a homogeneous blend of People.
I'm an optimist by nature. I believe in my heart of hearts that we can fix the economic crisis, climate change, poverty, cancer, AIDS. But realisitically, this would hardly happen without the cooperation of all the people. United we stand, divided we fall. All these problems we face today, can we really solve them for the sake of tomorrow?
I have a dream that yes we can.
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