A Dream Fulfilled Comments

As the world watches the euphoria of electing a black president to the white house, a first in the history of the United states, I couldn’t help but admire the courage and strength of the american people and its politics of hope over fear and division.
Deservedly, this moment represents a defining moment in the lives of so many particularly what it represents to the African Americans who have had to endure discrimination and segregation based on the color of their skin.Selfless Americans fought hard for equal rights and justice.Several unsung heroes watered our ground with their bloods to see this day when whites and black will unanimously stand together and elect a man not based on color or race but by the strength of his character which Martin Luther King (jr) amplified through his lifetime and died for on the altar of freedom from oppresion.
Today, we see a man who rose from the valley to being the worlds’ number one.A man who rose from very humble beginings in life, who had to endure the severance and love of a father and came from the bottom of the ladder to rule the world.He fought the world ahead of him through the many challenges and triumped over race, color, creed and defeat to a steady rise in life through the many ranks of being elected the first African American president of the prestigious Harvard law school to being to a community organiser, a distinguised state and federal legislator.
He could have been out on the field working on wall streets, chairing various boards and committees or heaping tons of money practising as a proffesional attorney but the love and service to makind he had within his loins wouldn’t let him.Through the windy and harsh weather, he had his sleeves roled up and onto the streets to help ordinary folks who had lost their jobs, their homes and indeed their future.He stood up for them, heard their cries, gave voice to the voiceless and hope to the hopeless when the world wasn’t watching this immaculate man.He rose above partisan politics knowing that the bond that streaks us together as a people goes far beyond what seperates us as we share a common destiny, a common goal, a common future.
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