WE ALL DREAM. DO WE HAVE THE AUDACITY?

I have been observing the American presidential primaries race for sometime now, and to give a summary of the man they call the audacity, the eloquence of truth and “the one” I would have to say something before I come back later. But I would have to say something today about Obama before the first caucus votes are cast in Iowa.

He effects me in a very positive way he just sounds like an unselfish person who wants to share his intelligence with aspiring peole and carries himself with dignity, speaks and addresses the issues so perfectly. I have put up with the cynics and those that have been preaching limitations for a long time now. Where are we now because of that cynism? you always hear, we can't, you can't. No one ever wondered why.
Barack Obama was president of the Harvard Law Review, a status that could have had him living as a billionair now. Instead, he chose civil rights advocacy. We all know from his CV what he has done up till now.

IF elected, he would become the first African-American president, has put himself in the running to win by stressing his willingness to reach across political divides and calling for an end to partisan vitriol.

"We can't have the same partisan food fight," Obama says

He has mostly avoided polarizing allusions to racial strife that energized presidential bids of Jesse Jackson in 1988 and Al Sharpton in 2004.

What is fascinating is Obama is not running on identity politics, he is attempting to transcend that and it has allowed him to have greater appeal."

His rejection of racial politics has, however, stirred dissatisfaction among some old-guard civil rights leaders, including Jackson, who in November accused Obama of not emphasizing enough "the plight of African-Americans."

But a few days later, Jackson's son, Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.), defended Obama. "Like Lincoln, Obama called on us to come together and face the new millennium together, as one people - as Americans," the younger Jackson, Obama's national co-chairman, wrote in an editorial.

To be sure, Obama has made frequent reference to slavery and his own African heritage. "I am running in this race because of what Dr. [Martin Luther] King called the fierce urgency of now," Obama repeats on most of his stumps. That he is standing where he is standing because someone somehwere stood up when it was unpopular, and then anotherperson stod up, and another. And finally a people is standing up for change. We all know what happens when a people stands up.

But he also reminded Americans that whites were among the abolitionists and today, are bonded with urban workers in Chicago, traders on Wall Street and immigrants in San Diego by a shared desire for safe neighbourhoods for their parents, good schools for their children, the freedom to chose their own sense of spirituality and a comfortable retirement when they are old.

That has won him passionate support everywhere in America where there is the new generation as he himself calls it though blacks are less than 14 percent of the population. Because as he says, there is no black america, or latino america, or white america, BUT the united states of america that has the same problems. That one voice can change, a city, a state, a country and the world.

In this day and age I wonder what the next few months hold for us descendants of the so called ‘inferior race’. But like Obama I would agree that what the people of the state of Iowa have shown in their presence at his rallies, defying the temperatures, the hate mails, the cynics to attend, is already a VICTORY for inspiration and the desire to mend the world. NO MATTER the outcome of the caucuses. And never in future will the Black man be regarded as the other anymore. Congratulations Mr. Barrack Obama

We all DREAM. And it is ok to dream. If not we would not be able to define HOPE.