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" The Voice in the Wilderness"

By Tyrone Norwood - Nov 11th, 2008 at 4:12 pm EST

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America I have been compiling my thoughts for what has become the most poignant moment in our history. So many for so long have been told that because of the color of their skin or the background from which they came that they could not be what they dreamed of becoming and that their vote did not count. On a warm fall evening, Tuesday, November 4, 2008, that myth was laid to rest. When I looked across at the thousands of people at the University of Pennsylvania campus and the large television screen showing the millions of people in Grant Park, I witnessed a sea of new beginnings and hope. I saw Hope that not has been seen or talked about since the cold winter night that President William Jefferson Clinton spoke of a place called Hope. I saw the rainbow that Jessie Jackson spoke of in 1973 telling folks of all nationalities that they were somebody and that they mattered.On that warm fall evening in November, I felt pride, proud to be an American and proud of Americas young people. I am proud of the elderly who are worried about their pensions and their healthcare, I am proud of the newly welcomed home vet that is only asking for their due. I saw them standing together, Black, White, Asian, Latino, Jewish, Religious and not so religious joined together waiting for the news, news of a common cause that change was here. On that warm November night I saw Dr. Kings dream come to pass and realized. I saw the brotherhood of man, coming together, that John Lennon imagined and sung about. I see the beginning of change. Change is the attitude of Hope that the millions of Americans carry with them. This is the beginning of Change that we can believe in.America is and shall always be that beacon of light the rest of the world looks to, as the example of true democracy. What we say and do as Americans are the examples in which other countries who are exploring the experiment of Democracy listens to and follows. So this is what I am asking. ABC, Disney, AOL, N.B.C. MsNBC and C.B.S. or whatever is passing as a news group these days... Can we start reporting news again? We need ground reporters to go overseas and send news reports from Darfur, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Georgia back to our country. Go and interview both sides and inform the American people. Informed Americans don't care about some Hollywoodland starlet and her divorce or some over the hill actor with a DUI or what some desperate diva is doing. I know that America is tired of star news as if it's news. BBC World news tells you more about what's going on in the U.S.A. than the American mainstream media is reporting. We put up with this through most of the Bush Administration and all through the campaign. What is going on with the surge other than, “it’s working”, how it is working. Is there any progress on the peace accord? Is there a peace accord? Did the Russian solders get out of Georgia and if not why not. What are the issues that British Parliament has on the table and are they still supporting our side in Iraq. The news, remember what it was like to be a correspondent or a reporter. I’m just askin that we get back to what is good.I am glad to have witnessed the day that the America I love so dearly got past its racial history. We have overcome. But America, President Elect Obama has said it himself. “There are mothers and fathers who will lie awake after the children fall asleep and wonder how they'll make the mortgage or pay their doctors' bills or save enough for their child's college education. There's new energy to harness, new jobs to be created, new schools to build, and threats to meet, alliances to repair. The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even in one term. But, America, I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there” Like our President Elect and many Americans we have fears. Jobs leaving our cities and going overseas to shoddy workers and materials, two wars being fought, an economy that is failing as we type. America we need more from a leader than the best one liner or the best miss quote of the day. America we are in trouble. As much as an optimist I am we see it around us everyday, the homeless victims of three major disasters, young men and woman dying in our streets due to drug violence and crime. America let us continue to talk about the substance of the issues. We have to do our part such as keeping this Blog going and informing each other of what is going on. Stay active with your local politics so that we elect qualified people who will work with our president while he works for us. The next two years are crucial and critical to America’s success. Please America; find out what issues are coming up for a vote in the Senate and the House. Make sure that the elected officials that say they represent your interest do represent your interest. The campaign is not over its just beginning. We as a people have to make this work because the world is watching and we set the standards. Again, I quote President Elect-Obama, “ If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer. It's the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen, by people who waited three hours and four hours, many for the first time in their lives, because they believed that this time must be different, that their voices could be that difference. It's the answer spoken by young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled. Americans who sent a message to the world that we have never been just a collection of individuals or a collection of red states and blue states. We are, and always will be, the United States of America.

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