I was sorting files on my laptop today and stumbled upon this, a text I wrote last year, and realized it was not on this blog. So it's old, but now public.
Let’s put it bluntly. BHO won the NPP because he realized the dream of MLK.
Ok, maybe not that bluntly.
Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009. Many people are wondering why. And to them I can only say “read the I have a dream speech again”, because that is what I did, randomly, and then it stroke me. Because to my humble opinion, the reason Barack Obama was elected, is because he realized Martin Luther King’s dream.
Think about it a little while longer.
A little while longer.
Okay now we are good.
MLK did say he had a dream that someday we would all be equal, that someday the sons of former slaves and former slaveowners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood, that one day his four children will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. This day has arrived. And it arrived last year.
When Barack, Hussein, Obama son of a white lady and a black man, got elected the 44th President of the UNITED States of America on November 4th, 2008, he created the physical representation of MLK’s speech 48 years earlier. By some wonders, this man managed to reunite the USA, to reunite African Americans and White Americans and give hope to every single one of them. He has this in his blood. After all who better than an African White American could be the pioneer in this giant leap for America?
The Nobel prize committee said it awarded the Nobel to BHO for “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between people”. To what extent can people judge he did not deserve it? In the history of Nobel Prizes award, had we only had war stoppers? Did we never honor efforts? Did we never honor tries? What about last year, Martti Ahtisaari, this Finish man who received the prize because of his important efforts over three decades to resolve international conflicts. Did he manage to resolve those? No, we still have Palestine and Israel throwing rocks at each other, British and American kids dying for their countries in Afghanistan, the Gulf war last for a long time and the two Koreas are still separate and 9/11 happened. Still, he tried, he made “important” efforts, not “outstanding” efforts to resolve those, and we honored that.
What about Kofi Annan in 2001? We honored his efforts too. Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin in 1994? Do people forget that that “political act” that “called for great courage on both sides” was the reason of the award because it “opened up opportunities for a new development towards fraternity in the Middle East”. Yes, Middle East, where all those bombs and mines explode and where those same British and American kids go to die.
Let’s make a point here, for decades, if not for the entire history of the Nobel Prizes, the prize has been awarded mostly to honor efforts, therefore a behavior that showed willingness to change the world, and that by doing this, in a way managed to change the world by changing peoples’ mind, by letting people ‘hope’ that the world can change.
Imagine what the world would look like if no one had ever tried. Well if no one had never tried it would have been because no one had ever cared. People would be selfish enough to feel content about the way they live and not care of what’s going on over there in the Middle East. After all, does it physically hurt my own person that a 19 years old from Dallas died because he got ambushed during boot camp? No you’re right, physically it does not hurt me. But mentally it does, because it makes me realize that the World is not all coloured, it is black and white. It is all good and all bad. And to me it is mostly bad.
But recently I changed my mind about that, and thanks to whom? Many people, not only Barack, my dear Obama. No, I changed my mind because people like him, or people like Kofi Annan, the UN representatives or even my next door neighbor, those people believe the world can get better, and by thinking like this, they make it better.
By giving hope to people, Barack Obama made millions of other people change their mind about the world. Citizens of one of the most segregationist countries 50 years from now voted for a black president. Those people solely decided that their country had changed enough that they could handle being directed by a “black dude”, a “Negro”, a “former slave’s son”, whatever we may call African American people. And this is not because he is a President that he changed peoples’ beliefs, no, as he said it himself, he was black before being a President. Shocker. Was he? Are you sure? Man that would mean that a black dude was powerful enough to change more than 50% of the population’s of the US of A vote for him and elect him as the head of their Government? Yes, why? Wait, does that mean that the White House hosts an African American? Indeed. Well so does it mean that we are all equal? Um, yes. That we live in a nation where people are not judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character? Yes. Does it mean that this nation rose up and lived out the true meaning of its creed?
It does.
Thank you Barack. You gave me peace of mind.
Posted via email from Jay Gee
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