The world embraces the change.. it's high hope and great aspirations in the mindset of people.. which is not a bad thing, because people being inspired about the leadership, is what helps people develop and pursue a positive mentality about what they each do themselves. We've had not just the air of mistrust for the past 8years, but the air was compressing in it's containment of peoples spirit.
It's about people now, seeing there is another way, and there are ways to get things done without a lot of drama making, but plan following and holding on to the ideal and pursuing it as a mission that must be engaged with determined focus, without the fanfare of hoopla.
Life is an interesting thing, but when it comes to ethnicity, people have many mis construed views about black people, many people not only black want acknowledgment as individual, and after centuries of dejection, many young blacks wear the flashiest and boldest of logos, colors and other things, trying to stand out to be noticed, as well as many white now with tattoos and piercings, which there was a time, this was looked at as being tribal.. but the manner and mode of such, brings them negative notice, rather than positive recognition.. and the cycle of madness carries forth. but of substance is what matter, people forget so much, but as black people not in just America but globally, and even people of darker skin of the homogeneous nations, are fighting a challenge of subliminal imposition of summation, but if we look at history it tells its own truth, it took a lot of depth to hold back the tempers over the ages, and determined work, to work through the principal for honest equality - to pursue equality; which has been good not just for blacks but for whites as well, except those who want to hold on to the superior mentality concept of self delusion.. so in that context, maybe Obama did not live within the civil rights marches of the era of the 60's, but his mother and father fought their own equality battles, just to be a couple, and they faced their achievement challenges because of their choices of mate selection.. there is much untold about many things, but it forges character, and the wise efforts not only of his mother but his mothers family, to stand firm on equality to give him the feeling of acceptance and teach him young the dire need in this life to accept others.. it's a truly humbling realization for each human being to aspire to attain.
but just like the marches of the 60's which opened the door not just for blacks but people from all places to have voice, and even be acknowledged in and of their person as being of presence.. again now, with the win of Obama, people are again inspired to feel they too have the opportunity to be engaging of their desires.
There are many many things which are first by many blacks that are never talked about and never mentioned, and they were triumphs in a world that was designed and promoted oppressive demeanor upon and toward people of a darker color of skin.. it was a black man in the 1980's who did the first multi billion dollar buy out, of corporate consolidating, with the "Beatrice Brand", and before he died he balanced the book.. but before him, never had a 25 billion dollar deal been done, nor attempted in such a manner, nor with such a solidity of purpose and function.
It was a black man who perfected the key element which makes it possible for us to be on this computer.. by his work with the Hard drive, but I'd think a great thing which can show many people many things, is watch the movie, and or read the story about..
Vivien Theodore Thomas (August 29, 1910 – November 26, 1985) was an African-American surgical technician and operative surgeon who helped develop the procedures used to treat blue baby syndrome in the 1940s. He was an assistant to Alfred Blalock at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee and later at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. Without any education past high school, Thomas rose above poverty and racism to become a cardiac surgery pioneer and a teacher to many of the country's most prominent surgeons.
also, Daniel Hale Williams (1858-1931) was a pioneer in open heart surgery.
but the story and list of many things omitted from the front line teaching, which was from a system, determined not to show positive role models nor to depict them in broad spectrum media and other means..
In this age with Obama, not only can his achievement to date ,not be hidden in the back of books as, one line mentions in history book, nor can it be purely omitted all together, it's a step in the world, which unfold and shows that much of what is hidden, is now in a frame that cannot be hidden, and the world acknowledge it and the world embraces it, for it too frees much of the many people globally, to not feel their works, their labors and their contribution will be buried for the sake of a system of omission.. If Obama does nothing else in his term, he has made a mark on history, that has opened a different page in an old book. and he broke every record in the program, in his efforts of doing so..
it was more white's who voted and supported him than blacks, because blacks make up less than 15% of this country.. so his win, signals that the minds of a great many have opened and do not aspire to cling to the past nor of what some of their elders hold die hard oppositions.. But as a Man told me a week ago, he was 66 years old, a white male at the office building, he sad, people may not pay attention to what whites did during his era, but it was his era, that said.. "no more".. they help set the tone and they stood up, and made choices and steps which lead to moee choices, which also, was progressive in the help to stamp out bigotry, and racism, and bias.. it was done to a great degree, but still there are many who can't see beyond themselves.. but the people of the era, they transitioned it to it's peak during the hippie movenment of the 60's which talked about and explored the realism of love, and they found.. love to be color blind.. it was and is mostly the rural areas and the elite areas which cling more strongly to the unspoken racism and bias, but they are coming to know and see, they can no longer find right in their reasons of doing so. There are some sad things still existing in our society, which was very prominently seen by the world, during this campaign, with the bigotry that showed up in the various regions of this country, and many areas, the people did not think for themselves, they repeated what they thought was the buzz of their community, and kept quite about their real thoughts .. and even now there are places and neighborhoods, that will never tell each other they voted for Obama.. it's a time of change, that is sorely needed..
even in battle, it took the fox holes of Vietnam, to awaken some to the fact that life is life, when they had to cover each other back side for survival.. and they came home, better friends, than they'd ever have imagined. In the South, it was 1971 before they fully integrated the schools here, I was in the 11th grade, the first years was its own trip, but by the time, I graduated.. it was beginning to find some unity of function.. I've never submitted to anyone being better than I am, nor do I think I'm better than anyone. and I've always found ways to have good harmony with the people I meet.
Watch what comes forth, the next year will bring many Asian to stand up, and be seen and be heard, it will bring many of the Latin people also, and as well, there are major things transforming in Africa that people are not paying attention to, black people have lead the charge in many things which has gone diminished in the awareness of being globally exposed, but now.. in nations where the dark skin people of places like China, and other Asian nation, will find their voice, and there will be change in those places as well.
I noted in Thailand, most of the office and bank jobs were held by the very light skinned Thai's, and the darker skinned Thaia were relegated to lower level jobs, but they are determined workers and they learn from the core of matters, and they will find their equality as well.
It's not so much about Obama, as it is about what the symbolism of change is, and Change is just what it means.. "change" and there is no bounds to what it will engage nor what it will transform.. and in doing so.. the world will be a globally better place because of it.
People deny reality, but there are many many whites in this country even though they don't outnumber the whites who support change, but of the numbers that resent the fact of seeing a black man in any position, are very anguished.. it will take time before they change and find their points of accord, and some may never do so. At the office, there are some people who have a very tight natured mindset since the election, some don't even speak and do things, to avoid even the chance to speak.. but it's only a matter of time before they come to see, they mostly only inhibit their own lives and hold on to a negativity that is more a detriment to them, than to the masses of this nation.
but what is real and true is there are many, who have not biased mindset about interacting, I have a young white woman who works for me, a few days a week, and she is very congenial and very much supports my goals as much as I support hers..
today she was refunded her money from a show, because the mangers of it did not like her working and promoting my events, I placed a called to the person who did this, and I also posted on my web site, a comment, which denotes, that we as people must work together, or we diminish our own progress as a society and a community and a city.
for me it's nothing new, I for over 20 years challenged the bias, but I did it based on principal, and the integrity of point fact and principle. I've been parts of groups where I was the only black, and they were not at all at ease with me being vocal, but that changed ... instead of people just dealing with me as a man, they wanted to tell me silly stuff like.. "you are not like other blacks"... and my response is, "how are "other" blacks" ... suddenly they recognized their biased concept, without me having to further address it ..
when I first started to write on this site, people resented a black person who expressed thought.. there were more attacks than anyone can imagine.. and every label that was imaginable was tried to be hung upon me.. as if the need to put me in some box of caption was the only way to deal with me as a person... rather than to deal with me as simply an individual..
life is made up of little steps, but big progress.,...we have to have the patience to know it always unfolds in such ways... then we can move with a sense of peace, un-rushed... and that is much of Obama's situation he moves with an un-rushed mindset...
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