YES WE CAN!!!!

This week I want to share the sentiment of my little sister, Safiyya Sharif-Jackson and then words from our new president, Brother Barack Obama:

Family and Friends,

Now that we have been present during the history making of this amazing and overwhelming accomplishment we have to remember that the minority is now the majority but this unfortunately has not changed some people hearts. Be very careful, especially in the southern areas because as we witness last night there is still racism. Everybody haven’t been cured over night, but we do have to recognize and accept that the majority have removed there hatred of there priority, because if they didn’t this would have never been in our reach. Giving credit where credit is do, Racism in my opinion is a combination of fear, hatred, and ignorance (Which is apart of learned behavior. I’m not going to go into this to much this is a whole separate email and conversation. Just think a little on this, let it simmer. Basically we all suffer from this). Once they realize that there nothing to fear in a child of god and they embrace change in the learn behavior, their fear will subside. We have experienced and witness this in this election year. Please make this speech one of many speeches that should be apart of our children’s curriculum:

“We know the battle ahead will be long, but always remember that no matter what obstacles stand in our way, nothing can withstand the power of millions of voices calling for change.

We have been told we cannot do this by a chorus of cynics who will only grow louder and more dissonant in the weeks to come. We've been asked to pause for a reality check. We've been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope.

But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope. For when we have faced down impossible odds; when we've been told that we're not ready, or that we shouldn't try, or that we can't, generations of Americans have responded with a simple creed that sums up the spirit of a people.

Yes we can.

It was a creed written into the founding documents that declared the destiny of a nation.

Yes we can.

It was whispered by slaves and abolitionists as they blazed a trail toward freedom through the darkest of nights.

Yes we can.

It was sung by immigrants as they struck out from distant shores and pioneers who pushed westward against an unforgiving wilderness.

Yes we can.

It was the call of workers who organized; women who reached for the ballot; a President who chose the moon as our new frontier; and a King who took us to the mountaintop and pointed the way to the Promised Land.

Yes we can to justice and equality.

Yes we can to opportunity and prosperity.

Yes we can heal this nation.

Yes we can repair this world.

Yes we can.

And so tomorrow, as we take this campaign South and West; as we learn that the struggles of the textile worker in Spartanburg are not so different than the plight of the dishwasher in Las Vegas; that the hopes of the little girl who goes to a crumbling school in Dillon are the same as the dreams of the boy who learns on the streets of LA; we will remember that there is something happening in America; that we are not as divided as our politics suggests; that we are one people; we are one nation; and together, we will begin the next great chapter in America's story with three words that will ring from coast to coast; from sea to shining sea –

Yes. We. Can.”

This link (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe751kMBwms) goes to this speech on Jan 28, 2008 in New Hamspire:

"This Morning, I woke up with a profound feeling of personal and sincere accomplishment. Not because I had done something myself as an individual, but because so many people made a difference in the way politics from a voting perspective is dealt. Brothers and Sisters of all races, creeds, and backgrounds came together to speak out and ask for a specific action: That action was CHANGE. Brother Barack stands for all people, which is why his platform was not about being a Black President, White President, a mixed President, or any title that would have put him in a category. He spoke to the masses as apart of that dynamic. Our Country is a place where all people live, love, and work to prosper and provide the best opportunity for themselves and their family. With that Ideal, it should be evident, that such a thing should promote the very real possibility of what we all experienced November 4, 2008. Brother Barack is the very real evidence of the manifestation of post civil rights movement.