The thread for the thoughts and prayers for the victims of the recent tornados inpired me to write this article which I sent to the USA Today, The Sac Bee and my local paper. What we're working for here and what Barack has accomplished so far is so much more than politics. Maybe it will inspire you to write or phone or raise money...
Here is the letter:
Can We Be Better Americans?
I’ve been supporting one candidate for President for the past year and a half. Ever since I heard him give the most inspiring speech my ears had heard in my generation, I began to hope that we had a chance to be a whole country again. I’m sure most of you know who and what I’m talking about. The speech was the one Barack Obama gave at the 2004 Democratic National Convention and in it he said some things that I hadn’t heard or felt in a very long time, patriotism. (You can look it up on YouTube if you haven’t seen it and I recommend you do, it’s awe inspiring.
The message that he projects is one of unification and hope, something some in this country don’t want to hear. But I charge you to think for yourselves and to dig down deep in your soul and think about what path this country and its citizens are headed for without hope. We don’t know our neighbors anymore, we don’t volunteer or get involved in community activities, we’ve become apathetic and separate from each other, afraid to reach across the street or even a table to open ourselves up to new experiences. Now all of this is not the fault of the American political system, but they certainly have preyed upon it.
Most of us are weary of politics and politicians who use their divisive plots and spin machines to separate us down the lines of gender, race and religion, but we have a chance at this moment to put all of this behind us. We are on the brink of a historic break through in America where one man has gathered a coalition of people together of all race, gender and class to tell the world that we can be strong again. He inspires us to care about each other and to hold each other up in the face of tragedy, insurmountable hurdles and a country that is literally broken.
Do we dare to care about each other again? Do we dare to dream that we could all be proud of ONE AMERICA? Barack Obama challenges us to believe again, “that there is not a liberal America or a conservative America, but the UNITED STATES of AMERICA”, that “there is not a white America or a black America, there is the United States of America.” You can certainly turn a deaf ear to this, but I wonder why anyone would? I challenge you now, Listen, Hope, and Believe.
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