Azore Opio
7 November 2008
opinion
It is, indeed, a historic moment. The historical note couldn't have been written otherwise. Why should it have been otherwise, anyway?
The free-will election of a black man as an American President is testimony to several incredible things, amongst which are that America, truly, is a democratic nation that respects the values of freedom and justice; that the framers of the remarkable "Declaration of Independence" believed in the self-evident truth that "all men are created equal"; that every American or whoever finds him/herself in America believes, in some sense, that they are the equals of every other American;
that they have a right to the best of everything - wealth, power, social importance and high office; and that they may one day be President of the United States, regardless of race, colour or religion; that though they might be from the humblest origins, they dream of prosperity.
It is also testimony that America has come of age and finally demystified the so-called Noah's Curse, which American plantation owners invoked to exploit and abuse Africans sold into slavery.
By this historic election, America has sloughed its racist skin and repented from its perilous days when the black man was segregated from birth to the grave. But, above all, the election of a black American president is simple proof that the black-skinned race is not inferior to any other race; that the election of Barack Hussein Obama as the first Black US President, defying colour, religion and all the like, has washed off the colour bar.
Nonetheless, Americans are smart; at least Obama is not a nigger of slave descent.
Perhaps, one day, a woman, a Red Indian, a Hispanic, a Jew, a Chinese, an Eskimo or perhaps, even an Arab might become the President of the United States, who knows?
Perhaps, too, one day, Obama might come over to Africa with much-needed change, starting with Kenya!
As we look back on the whole process, perhaps the man to remember most in Black History, for his prophesy, is Martin Luther King Jnr.
"I have a dream!"
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