Hope

We are at a crossroads as Americans. We face the inevitable axiom of historical reciprocity as we speak. It must be true that history repeats itself. This confuses some as we are to believe that we are facing change. Ambiguous in it's nature, change tends to make people believe that we are in for good times. I believe that change is a two sided coin. We have on one side change that can be positive, uplifting, meant for the betterment of all. On the other side of the coin is change that can be destructive, harmful and worst yet....irreversible. I Would like to point out our new president will always be a part of history being the first African-American president elected. History is the longest running record of events we have to see where things went right and where things went wrong. It is the single most important asset we have as a nation to gauge our present and future actions. And although the face has changed the game remains the same.

While everyone has been obsessed with race, religion, color and birthrights, they have forgotten the most important aspect of all, the mind. For I could be black, white, Asian or Hispanic and it matters not the package the gift is wrapped in, it is whats inside. All history cares about are the actions and events. We tend to lose site of the fact that we don't go around touching a hot iron because we either touched it once long ago and it hurt or we took someones word that if we touch it we will get burned. Some people have the belief that they can right the wrongs of history by repeating the same actions that took place and trying vainly to control a new outcome.. It seems to me that we are to not touch the iron again not find a new way to touch it and expect a different result.

Well here we are trying to touch the ideological iron. The policies that we as a nation are being force to deal with now are not new. They have been tried in vein before and we hope (operative catch phrase) that this time it will be different. Hope The concept of hope is funny because it really doesn't achieve a thing. If I walk away from my keyboard right now and decide that I am going to go do something else and I say, "I really hope that this finishes typing itself by the time I come back". I am going to be sorely disappointed when I look at my screen and find that it is not done. Now on the offshoot that it is done, by god a miracle has just occurred and I should thank whomever may have completed it for me. You see how it works, I either have to sit here ,get it done ,continue to type , take responsibility for completing it myself and know that it is written the way that I want. I get the benefit of knowing that is complete and in my own words Or I sit around and hope that it gets done for me by someone else and have no control on the content or outcome and sit back and say, " well at least it is done even though it's not what I wanted but the ends justify the means."

We don't need to have hope so much as we need to have the ability to know that we are empowered to achieve almost anything we want. Mr. Obama didn't sit back and hope he would be president he worked really hard to set in motion the processes that we required to achieve his desired outcome. And his voting base didn't hope he would be president they actually went to the voting booth and voted. So the irony of this whole thing is not lost. But this where it ends with hope. The work has been done and hopeful still sit and hope for allot and feel comfortable in no being involved it the process or it's outcome. All that is left to do now it hope that everything is taken care of. While on the the other side people are hoping that the damage isn't to severe, hoping that the changes are not irreversible. All I can say is the same principle applies to us as well. Instead of hoping that it is not to late, or hoping that there is a way to fight this, do something. I have said before that we are the governed and Mr. Obama and his co-Hort's only have their just powers as bestowed upon by us. So don't sit back and hope something or someone slows this radical change down, vote, fight, and be involved in the process. Hoping will get you no where but action will.

I hope you understand my point.