I for one respect the office and although i didnt vote for him, i wish him the best. Like it or not, he's the prism through which we are now seen by the rest of the world.
I dont want to get off on a rant here, but :
Did you know that Barak Obama is the first black president ? Geez, i would have never known that if our friends at ABC,NBC,CBS, MSNBC, FOX, CNN, newsweek, time, wash.post, ny times, etc hadnt told me daily since nov 4th....and about every 15 seconds during the conronatio...err,....Inauguration.
Did u know that Martin Luther King, Jr was apparently black also.....i think he was a speaker of some reknown, but it was so long ago that almost no one who isnt black apparently remembers him or anything he tried to do.....
...and did you know black people were once slaves here in America? (Unlike the millions of slaves held by the Romans, the Assyrians, the Mongols, the Turks, the Babylonians, the Zulus, the Carthaginians, the Chinese, the Japanese, the Egyptians, the Russians, the French, the Arabs, the Hindus, and many 'sub-saharan cultures' throughout history.....)
...and when did it become mandatory for any Christian preacher to call themselves Dr?
Isnt that reserved for people who actually earn degrees studying something? Dr of Divinity is an affront to people who actually get PhD's the old fashioned way....they earn them.
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But they also discovered something else: that as applicants spent more time with prospective employers, the numbers began to shift. Whites went from being 9.6 times more likely to receive a callback or job offer than blacks to 1.9 times more likely. Prejudice was persistent, but familiarity went a long way toward breaking it down. Americans of different races are becoming more comfortable with each other. Obama's ascension is the strongest indicator of that—and it comes at a critical moment.
In an essay written months before the attack on Pearl Harbor, Life publisher Henry Luce pronounced the dawning of "The American Century." In this new era, America was called upon to "accept wholeheartedly our duty … as the most powerful and vital nation in the world." It was our job to feed the world's hungry, to guarantee the world's freedom and spread America's gospel of democracy.
It will fall on Obama to update Luce's vision—to herald in a New American Century, one alive with both possibility and humility. With Obama's election, he breathes life into the American Dream by embodying at least one aspect of its fulfillment.
© 2008
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