He was told that it could never happen.
The American people weren’t ready.
But what his critics failed to understand is that his message of Hope and Change was colorblind. People from every walk of life could relate.
His message told the stories of the forgotten people, reminding his political counterparts that in the end it is the people that matter.
His message was the extension of the American Creed, Yes We Can.
Yes we can hope for a brighter day.
Yes we can dream our biggest dream.
Yes We Can.
These words hold the American Dream together.
Turing impossibilities into something more, something worth fighting for.
See on the night of the election, I went to sleep knowing my president looked like me, shared a similar story, and at times felt like an outsider , just like me.
But one feeling that we as Americans have all shared is PRIDE for our country.
I am proud to be an American.
I am proud to be an American.
Although, on July 19th 1776, Americas’ smartest men forgot to include my people in the Declaration of Independence
A document that represented freedoms my people weren’t a part of.
But out of that forgetfulness, El Hajj Malik Shabazz aka Malcolm X, Sojourner Truth, Barbara Jordan, Shirley Chisholm, Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks, Fred Shuttlesworth, Colin Powell, Emmitt Till, David Paterson, and Martin Luther King, Jr.were able to emerge out of the depths of injustice.
Because of their courage and dreams of an equal America, a Barack Obama is able to hold the highest seat.
So if you are upset that for the first time since the beginning of time, your president doesn’t look like you, remember that the only color that runs the world is green.
Money is what keeps the world spinning on its axis.
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