Tonight my missive to the universe will be short, as I've had a long day. I watched the State of the Union address and fell smitten with our President, all over again. There were moments where whole segments of the speech I finished the sentences as they poured out of his mouth, as they were prepackaged and well worn. But it wasn't those moments that made my chest glow with a warm energy.
No it was the sincere moments, the moments when he used the pronoun "I".
I am from Hawaii. I am from a multi-cultural state and family. I believe in better government.
He still believes that we are One People in America. I do too.
He is an island boy, like Bob Marley.
Bob was a product of a mix race union, too.
He believed in One Love for the entire world. I do too.
A recent film, PRIDE, about the British Coal Miners strike in the early 1980's being aided by a group of London Gay and Lesbian activists had the tag line; "Prejudice Can't Survive Proximity".
I keep hoping that as our world shrinks with media, academia, global banking, and instantaneous social connections that our ability to form prejudice will shrink with it.
When we, the inhabitants of this globe, wake up to the fact that we share one earth and we need to take care of it and each other, that those two items are the most important issues, then we will be truly a civilized planet.
For tonight, I'm going to sleep with images of a sincere salt-water boy who is struggling, and mostly succeeding in making this country the best he can with the rusty tools at hand.
(Photo : Barak Obama Hawaii as a child ; UK newspaper)
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