Why this election does matter…

This election does matter.  In matters of ethnicity, it matters a lot.  I wasn’t clear about what I was criticizing in my last post and Ed (and probably Ghetto, also) called me on it.

It means a lot that a black man who didn’t run on the “black man race card” won.  It says a lot about what American can be and how far we have come.  Obama, himself, will do, has already done, great things for our international reputation.

One only has to watch Colin Powell’s discussion of Obama’s election to see how powerful this has been to black America.

In my previous post I did not mean to demean the importance of Obama’s election.

What I meant to say was that the political machine that is America will not change very much.  If at all.  The rich rule the poor – this is the way it always has been.

I hope that Obama can inspire and motivate people in the direction of peace and diplomacy.  I hope that he can turn America into the light of hope and freedom and democracy that it could be – but I suspect that life will go on as it has.

Still.  I do nurture a small, quiet hope.  He’s no savior, but he’s young, vigorous and intelligent.  That’s something we haven’t had in eight years.  It’s a good change.