Why Must it Be This Way?

Ok, so every time a white person walks by me today, I try my darnedest to hide the widest grin in all creation. Not b/c I am laughing, just that today, especially today, I feel so proud! Regardless of everything that we all have been through, Obama's election gives us the hope that we can do it in spite of. That America is not completely screwed.

So fast forward.

This brings me to the obvious problem. Race is still very much so a factor in everything we do. Now that Obama is in, all of a sudden, the Morning News stations have panels of fifty-million Black people talking about this historic event. Black people we have never heard of. And white folks that we have also never heard of, speaking on the plight of African Americans and how this election will effect our culture in the future. Why did it take the President being a black man for them to acknowledge the fact that there is a problem, to the nth degree, which they are doing now? I'm sure if McCain had won, these panels would become the flip side of the palm and the matter would gradually fade away after the rioting and looting in the streets have quieted.

Yes, this is the beginning of change. But we as a people have to keep the snowball rolling. I saw so many people ON TIME for work this morning, that it was astonishing! Running to the Subway and actually looking for the newspapers at the station. We have to keep this up, we can't just let the fire die after the hype is over, reignite it on Jan 20, then let it falter again. We have to keep striving. We have to keep rising.

I LOVE BLACK PEOPLE!

'Tis All.

P.S. Still working on the book!