I don’t know what you were doing today, but if you watched the inauguration at all, you HAD to be overwhelmed. If this is you, read on:
- You’re tired of blacks demanding stuff that they didn’t work for
- You’re tired of hearing about hundreds of years of oppression
- You think whites are more discriminated against than minorities
Does that sum it up for you?
Tell me you didn’t see the 70 year old retired military man weep because he never thought he’d see this day. Tell me you couldn’t read Aretha Franklin’s eyes and know that she had flashbacks to her early career when she couldn’t stay in the same hotel as whites. Tell me that you couldn’t feel what overcame every single black American today, the day that truly proved anything is possible. If you don’t get it by now, you probably never will. We may not have ‘separate but equal anymore’, we may not openly deny minorities the same legal rights any more, and quite honestly, we may have a long way to go. But today, our country did something that only a year ago, I thought was impossible. We looked beyond color, beyond stereotypes, and we elected a man to the highest office in the land because the majority of us thought he could do the job. If that significance was lost on you, then you will never understand what racial strife really is. Oh, there will still be the backroom quips, the snide comments, the look-around-before-you-tell-a-joke moments. But the majority of this country is no longer on your side. YOU are in the minority. Allow Barrack Obama to fail as well as succeed. Allow him the misses as you allow him the hits. Afford him the same luxury as you do any other politician. After all, that’s all he’s really asking of you.
