Thursday, November 06, 2008
Yes, they could
«It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.».
Barack Obama.
Yes, Barack Hussein Obama will be the next president of the USA. Now it's official. It seems that the majority of the people in the USA believe in change. Something that could only happen in the movies just few years ago did happen last Tuesday.
I don't think that so many things will actually change. The system will work in the same way that it has been doing for decades. But the manners will change. Hopefully, they will change dramatically. And the manners are very important. They are what people perceive.
In the rest of the world, Obama's election means hope. We hope that the USA will have a president who regards the rest of the world as people, rather than as a battleground, or a huge oil deposit.
I have to say that I am already fed up with all this 'Obama will be the first black president of the USA'. First of all, because I don't care if he's black, white or green (well, if he was green I would be worried about his health :D). And second of all, because he is not black. He is as black as white (if that matters at all).
Saying that Obama is black we are already showing our racism and our white-centered point of view. So, if you are not a 100% pure anglo-saxon, you are 'black'? Obama's mother was 100% white. From our white point of view, he might be black, but let's put him in a village of Kenya, his father's homeland. I bet he looks perfectly white among them.
Anyway, I have to say, I am really curious, and I believe that Obama will have brilliant pages in the History books (they would look brilliant anyway, being next to the dark chapter of Bush). If he has overcome all the clichés, if he has beaten two 'political monsters' being a perfect stranger a couple of years ago, and if he has managed to do that talking about change and hope, we have reasons to expect great things of him.
Let's see.
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