After the Presidential race, I am still having conversations about the President Candidates, not of my choice. People just love to rub it in my face that President-Elect Barack Obama (the brother) won the Presidency.   I try to avoid the conversations by saying very little.

            It is nice that Barack Obama won the election, but how many Americans who voted for him, really know anything about him or his policies, other then he is black. Just because a person skin color is black, doesn’t mean that person is black according to America’s definition of a black person. Every American “I” talk too, doesn’t know anything about Barack Obama character or his policies, their answers are, “A brother won.”  Or, “We got a black man in the White House.” Of course I get the other answer, “As long as we don’t have another George Bush.”

            Most of their answers are abstract and doesn’t make sense. I listened to Martin Luther King Jr. famous speech in 1963, “I have a dream.” I listened to I have a dream so many times in the past, I almost have it memorized, but when I ask the Americans “I” talk to about the part of the speech, when Martin Luther King Jr. said, “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” The reply is, “I don’t care” or I get shoulder shrugs follow with the remark, “The brother won.”

            Too many Americans do not know anything about President-Elect Obama character, or care to know, nor do they know anything about his policies. It would be sad and shallow, if the majority of Americans who voted for President-Elect Obama, only voted for him because his skin color is black, or they wanted to have a black person in the White house. What were the marching, beatings, Americans being killed, demonstrations, sit-ins, protesting, and the speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for, if it was just for a shallow reason of a skin color?

I Have a Dream.

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