Barack Obama will walk into the pages of history tomorrow, and he will be called America's first African-American President, making him President #44. It took a country whose motto is freedom and equality 44 attempts to get it equal, and some people might make the argument that it wasn't a reasonable America coming to its senses that prompted these kinds of results. His political marketing machine and his 2 million donors who contributed in the smallest of increments was what helped him win the war against die-hards like Hillary Clinton and John Mccain, ok...maybe so.
I have spoken to black activists and bloggers who insist that Obama doesn't really qualify as the first black president. Because his mother was white, so that would make him not "black enough". To those people...I say this: He would have been black enough to have been made to go to the back of a bus in the South 50 years ago or be denied a seat at a whites-only diner counter or be barred from enrolling in a state university. To me...that qualifies him, so stop with the black enough arguments, many of you sleep with white women regularly, and if you were to have a child with one of them you wouldn't be saying that of your child if they made it to the presidential level. (yeah, how you like dem apples?)
Obama has transfixed the minds of people all over the world and this inauguration has unprecedented fanfare attached to it; sometimes this inauguration has been made to feel more like a coronation or even a resurrection. The media has went through it's JFK similarities and its MLK comparisons, and has by now managed to build up all of the right emotions depending on whichever way the scenario goes tomorrow. From watching the coverage on TV in recent days, I have been led to think that there is something being created for everyone to watch. For those of us who are subconsciously afraid that something negative might happen - there is the coverage of Dr King's assassination one day before the inauguration of America's first black president, which definitely makes the viewer think of things that they might not have wanted to imagine.
All of this is very cleverly orchestrated, and I for one hope that nothing negative befalls this young 44th president. Like many other people around the world, I feel this to be a very significant occurrence for many reasons. I've read about the lynchings, the Klan, school-desegregation busing, use of police and military to permit blacks to enrol in universities, race riots and so on. It is a marvellous achievement for Americans to see this happening, because many people all over the world are infected by the disease of permeating white supremacy in and throughout institutions everywhere. I will in a short time from now put aside the pride that I feel for him being black and breaking down barriers and I will start looking at what he will do once he takes office, because the pressures mounted on his shoulders are monumentally huge. Are any of you thinking about whether he will be a "true" president of the people...I wonder whether he will exploit the admiration afforded to him and be used as another conglomerate hugging puppet. We shall wait and see...
Can we resist another tyrannical president 4 years from now...YES WE CAN!
So he better try and do as he's promised...lol
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