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LenaX (Richmond, CA)

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For the first time in my adult life I am able to vote for a viable African American candidate whose views mirror my own and I will not veer from this responsibility for a millimeter of a second. For me the Audacity of Hope mirrors the Audacity of Success to a great degree because one can not have one without the other. It takes audacity to believe in oneself in the manner that Barack Obama has. It takes courage to stand in the middle of the black and white platform of race (not by choice but by circumstance) and fully accept the love, character and dignity shown by a Caucasian mother, grandmother, and grandfather, leave their nest and be seen by only half of what you are, and answer for fifty percent of yourself at levels that exceed 100%. The audacity to hope to look beyond circumstance in order to stand on both sides of the aisle and declare with resounding clarity the issues of the day, not the black day, nor the white day, but the issues of TODAY, and say with all certainty change is not an option but a right. Some people hear truth and look beyond the words, to their own circumstance, issues and socialization. What does socialization have to do with it? What does it not? Socialization develops and shapes who we are, because of what our parents believe, what are family believe, our friends, our communities and of course our social-economic status. But who’s to say the socialization process you went through was correct? Did it merely follow the crowd? If your parents chose to be moved by majority rules how can your thoughts, actions and ideas ever be your own? What majority did Barack Obama have to follow? Whose side can you say he’s on? He is the product of a white mother and black father, so for him there is no majority, or minority there is simply truth. He speaks what is truth for him, if we were to set aside our blackness and our whiteness in order to see the truth, what would we see?

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