Yes We Can!

Many years ago this land now known as North America was virtually unknown to the Europeans. The Africans knew of and had even been here with the North, Central and South American natives. In fact Africans lived here as well. We have proof in our knowledge of the Olmec, the logs of Columbus and the journals others who ventured to the Americas. They saw Africans that were already here. When the Europeans came and decided to live here they brought evil in their ways and by way of disease that the native had never experienced. They also brought over here the infamous 'slave trade' and with no mercy they changed the fabric of life on this side of the planet. The slave trade spawned what we now call the Hispanics and Caribbean cultures. By bringing over the African element and with the Native Americans they were able to build the colonies up to a strength that would be able to fight and defeat Mother England. England owned the colonies and therefore taxed them as they wanted. The original 13 colonies put up with these taxes until rebels (less than 1 third of them) decide to refuse to pay there share of taxes. Eventually they began to fight the English using terroristic methods. They not only fought the English they also terrorized the colonist who didn't have a problem with England. They forced many to join their cause. After declaring their independance they eventually beat the British and came up with a constitution for what they called the Union or the United states of America. This constitution is the foundation of this country. They way it and it's government was set up was to make sure that no one or group could do to it what they did to England. They set it up so that it would remain fundamentally the same yet allow for changes that would come with time. It is a broad and flexible document allowing for change while holding this country's government in place. The founding fathers thought this over with much in mind concerning longevity. So they set up a Constitution-based federal republic with a strong democratic tradition. At that time they didn't any high regards for the African slaves. In fact some of them tried to make our position in life permenant.
Little did the so called founding fathers know that the progeny of their slaves would one day be able to read. Once we were able to read we would one day read and fully understand their fine Constitution. We would read and understand our way through schools and some of us would even become lawyers and eventually judges. Little did they know that a black man nameed Thurgood Marshall along with othe lawyers would crack the constitutional code and bring to life the freedoms, liberties, and rights only enjoyed by europeans. Little did they know that a black man whos father was murdered by racist white, who excelled in school but was told as a black not to expect to gain much in life despite his intelligence, who landed in jail, who read and wrote down every word in the dictionary, who rose to lead many of his black people would become one of the greatest speakers in the world and a civil/human rights activist. Little did they know that this man Malcolm X would rise above their restraints and inspire, insight and ignite this nation! These same founding fathers did not know that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would lead some of the most successful boycotts and have the President and Attorney General pull this nation away from it's racist treatment of blacks. They had no idea that all of this and more would lead to this year, 2008 and this mighty nation of bigots, racist, and white supremist would be seeing a black man with an African name on the verge of becoming Chief Executive and President of the United States of America! Their 13 colonies are now 50 states and its dependents {American Samoa, Baker Island, Guam, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Johnston Atoll, Kingman Reef, Midway Islands, Navassa Island, Northern Mariana Islands, Palmyra Atoll, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Wake Island
note: from 18 July 1947 until 1 October 1994, the US administered the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands; it entered into a political relationship with all four political units: the Northern Mariana Islands is a commonwealth in political union with the US (effective 3 November 1986); the Republic of the Marshall Islands signed a Compact of Free Association with the US (effective 21 October 1986); the Federated States of Micronesia signed a Compact of Free Association with the US (effective 3 November 1986); Palau concluded a Compact of Free Association with the US (effective 1 October 1994)}. As we await the 4th day of November so that this country can finally validate its claim as being land of the free, it feels as if we are in the final battle of a long fought war. A war in which the minds of a people have been scared worse than any in known human history. Yes, I am talking about the murder of our children, the rape of our women, the torture and murder of our men, and the deletion of our original culture. For so long we have been asked to forget our past and present suffering while also being told to go back to Africa. We cannot forget nor can we go back. They erased our past so we don't really know where to go back. We are here and have done our share. The time is right now for America to show us love. Yet, we cannot ask for this country to show us love. Time, trial, and error have shown that as a people we must rise up and take what we want. Now some may say that is the wrong way to do it. I say as Malcolm x said "When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire . . . or preserve his (or her) freedom.". This does not always mean that we have to take it by force or violence. Yet sometimes it does. There are those of us so called blacks who will try to say why should i vote for a person just because he or she is black. I say that when the person is qualified and Obama certainly is (Don't believe that foolishness they are trying put out there that he is not) then I say do so that the people among us who don't believe that we can amount to much as blacks can see that we are truly equal and can start to teach our children to not feel less than. Just imagine the mind set of those black child world wide who will know of a new reality with a black man as president of this planets most powerful country. Forget about all that you believe because we never knew this could happen. It is now a reality. Obama has gotten on the battle field and fought along side them with dignity and respect and is beating them all. Many whites don't like it because of ignorance but, who cares. We are here now. It feels as if the fight is almost over but, we must come out to break all records and make true history. Right here, right now. Put aside your silly notion, your self hatred, your self doubt, and your FEAR of a BLACK planet. Let us do what has been a long time coming. YES WE CAN!!