A Moment in Time

Waking up this morning, I felt a surge of energy. My usual routine was off, I am at work early...it's 6:50am cst. I stop and I look at my usual reads of the day, and today of all days I am happy. The canvassing, raising of funds, the many discussions, and the spread of hope has arrived. Barack Obama is the Democratic nominee for President of the United States of America. Our nation built on the back of African slaves, German and Irish immigrants, Chinese railroad workers, Mexican farmers, and people who believed in certain "God-Given" freedoms have started to realize our full potential in terms of talent that we have.

I feel immensely proud because at a time when it seems nothing can change this course we are heading in American history, the feeling has changed. My professor once said that in times of strife, struggle, and war leadership arises and transforms a nation. Our founding fathers came from the foggy bottoms of the American Revolution. Abraham Lincoln rose from the ashes of a nation tearing itself apart. Franklin D. Roosevelt stood amidst the rubble of the most horrific war of all time and proclaimed our country the greatest. Now amidst the war against ideologies that seek to destroy us, as we become more and more dependent on actors outside our borders comes possibly the most transcendent leader of my lifetime.

A man with a common background given the freedoms of this country to use his extraordinary gifts. An underdog who devised a strategy to shake the status quo. I know he will not be able to solve all of our problems, fix all black issues, all poverty issues. But it is with my hope that he sets a new direction for our country to go in which we all from birth have an opportunity to be great and that circumstances such as family lineage, socioeconomic status, and ethnicity are not barriers but great flavors which make our nation that stew of democracy.

Hope, country established on the promise of freedoms and the hope that its children will be able to prosper and progress. Change, a country built on the ideal that a republic, very much different than a monarchy, can be the change the world seeks. As Americans it is our nature to hope for change, from the pulpits to elementary children learning to read. We hope for change today for a better tomorrow.

We stand at this moment in time
Glad to Be American!