Gushing All Inaugural | 01/20/2009 |
 Everyone seems to be gushing. The inauguration has happened, we have a new president, and all the white people are so proud that they allowed it to happen.
I'm officially sick of it.
As far as I can see: I still live in the United States, Congress still needs to makes laws to get anything done, the court system is strained, major U.S. corporations still pull the strings of the world, and we're still in a recession. We're on a stagecoach heading towards a cliff, the driver's dead, and we're turning the reigns over the raw recruit.
OK, it's not really all that bad. I'm overstating the point. Let's face it Barack Obama used "change" as his main slogan throughout his campaign, and today, Change happened. Granted, his slogan is exactly the same slogan every non-incumbent party pitches. It worked this time.
And after all, we really need a change. I don't know if Barack was the change we needed, but that's not really an issue anymore. He's the change we got.
It doesn't matter that Barack is a black man. Never did - and I don't see why it should. Electing someone because of their skin color is exactly the same as not electing someone because of their skin color: it's racism one way or the other. I am not a racist, and I don't promote skin-color bias. No one should.
So, you're probably wondering if I voted for Mr. Obama. I did not. If it makes any difference in your mind, I also did not vote for Mr. McCain. I didn't think either of them was the right presidential choice. I still don't. I am in an extreme minority.
And yet, I'd make the same choice, again, given the same options.
So, I sit at work. I get the play by play on the inauguration from Twitter, and I see a lot of white people whooping it up because a black man is in office. They waited 'til today, like they thought something would prevent the man from sitting his term in office. It turns my stomach. I've never had much patience for fair-weather friends, and they seem to be the worst kind of them. As for me, ask my opinion of the new president in a hundred days after he's gotten his feet wet.
I hope in four years, I have more confidence in Barack. I want to have faith in him. I want to say that I'm proud to vote for him. I want to have faith in my elected officials. I want my country to be strong and healthy. I want to be on the bandwagon and join in the fun. My innate pessimism does not offer me any hope that this will happen; however, but it's good to want things.
I will end with this: A blessing.
I tip my hat to the new president. May his
desire for change be enough to make change happen, and may those
changes be for the best. Good will to the country, to the new president,
and to the world. May all our dreams be no worse than reality and our reality
be better than we dream.
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Amen to your blessing.