Promised land.....

Promised land..The Angels of our better nature
Current mood: contemplative
Category: melancholy News and Politics

Last night we elected an intelligent and honorable man to be our 44th president.
A black man raised by a single mother and his grandparents, a man who wihile growing up learned that to be accepted in a color coded country, that he'd have to be smarter, nicer, socially wiser...a man hand made by society and family to be able to reach out, to find common ground...a man who could reach out and say i might not have had your vote, but I will hear you and work..I will be your President too...

Rep. John Lewis sat for an interview after the election had been callled for Obama, and to look at his face was to see the track of racial intolerance and the civil rights stuggle worn like a tattoo over his cheeks and eyes...the pride, the dis-belief, the hope the bittersweet memories about those killed over color in his lifetime, trying to bring equality to this country.

I read that FDR thought it was not the specific programs he gave this country after the depression, but instead the gift of hope...of faith in our ability to re-0build our economy, our infrastructure, our core american values...Faith reflected, was his talent and gift to a wounded America.

Obama has that gift, that talent. . He has vision and conscience and values..

I hope the great greed, concentrated wealth, lack of constitutional and legal restrictions that the Reagan/Bush neocon's have spewed can be cleaned up. That we can rebuild our jobs base, our education systems, take care of our sick and less fortunate...value art and ideas, create peace and end two new world order wars...

No one man can do that. It is President Obama, the House, the Senate...
but MOSTLY IT IS US!!! WE will need to be vigilant. We will need to get off our asses and lobby, debate, hold people accountable...we will need to be engaged in our own destiny. We will use the gift of FAITH that Obama has, to our greater good. We will be a democracy again. We will be good, honorable citizens who no longer follow like sheep.

We will honor the memory of all of the great men and women who got us to this day, the day a wise man, who also happens to be black, is our 44th President.

Soujourner Truth, Rosa Parks, MLK, Robert Kennedy, Toussaint, the many slain civil rights workers, freedom bus tiders, lunch-counter protestors, sweet Rep.John Lewis..... They saw the promised land from a great distance....some, many, died trying to get us all to that promised land...Last night in America, we got to the promised land.
Let us not waste it.

Currently listening :
'His Eye Is on the Sparrow'
By ETHEL WATERS