Color Blind

Inspiration of a modern Leader

Today I heard Sen. Obama’s speech on racism. It was awesome and there are lessons there that we all need to embrace and I urge everyone, especially our Politician to pay some heed. The speech is on MSNCB in video or in written form.

Just some snippets:

“…we cannot solve the challenges of our time unless we solve them together – unless we perfect our union by understanding that we have different stories, but we hold common hopes; that we may not look the same and we may not come from the same place, but we all want to move in the same direction – towards a better future for our children and grandchildren.”

“The dreams of [one race] does not come at the expense of [another race]”

Can our leaders rise up to this standard of leadership, this standard of understanding real issues that confront us normal citizens each day? To embrace the fact that no matter what race, religion, color or background, we all want the same for our children and our grandchildren. We want justice and progress for all. Be a brave leader so we can all move forward in the same direction and not be kept in the same sinking quagmire.

We do not want feudalism. We don’t want dictatorial and overbearing, threatening leadership. We want inspiring, intellectual, inspirational leadership.

Our dreams in our unique multicultural society is not a zero sum game. It doesn’t have to be I lose so you win , or I can only win when you lose. We can only win when we all win together.

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