thanks for sharing your views.
I need time to read it.
I am schedule to attend a conf in LA over the wkend…
very hectic ….
I would love to hear it from your mouth, as you know
I ain’t too good with vocabulary. Will explain me sometime?
yours

Atul

Moreover, Obama’s color is a huge element in people’s hope for the future. The influence of a leader is inestimable. That the leader of the world’s most powerful nation is suddenly black, and not just black but smart, self-aware and honest, with at least some power to make a difference in the lives of people of color all over the world, is mindboggling. Of course, there are many crooked black politicians, just as there are crooked women politicians, and accident of birth doesn’t guarantee a thing, but Obama’s victory may well do for people of color what hundreds of years of half-hearted, patchwork remedies could not. Just look at the tears of black people all over America. Suddenly the fad for gangsta-ism and prison chic is being challenged by a fad to succeed. Suddenly, for billions of people around the world, they see a real-life, rags-to-riches example of a black man whose strivings led him to the pinnacle of success. That is wholly positive.

Finally, his election is a signal to the world that America is still relevant, that it is still an extraordinary social and political experiment. Many younger people don’t remember or appreciate that America wrote the book on personal freedom and representative government. The Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights remain today the most progressive social compacts ever written. They were the model for every 20th Century anti-colonial revolution, even as we became their greatest nemesis. We absolutely must push as hard as ever to retrieve those ideals from the junkyard of history. But the difference now is that we can argue with Obama where we couldn’t at all with BushCo. Are the cards still stacked against us? Yes. Is government still in the pocket of the ruling class? Yes. How much will Obama reverse the trends of the last 30 years? Some. So we fight and march and organize. For myself, I feel considerably lighter after many, many years of defeat.