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Some Observations About November 4th
Family:
What’s good? I hope this email finds you and yours in the best of health and spirits as we not only as a community, but a country bask in what we just witnessed. I don’t know about you, but I know for me I just seem to be a little bit taller and as my younger brother’s would say my swagger just got a little bit more energized. What we had the pleasure to witness not only told the story of what we can do if we as a nation put behind the petty difference of race and focus on the greater good because it took not only our community, but it took the folks in places like Iowa and New Hampshire to help us see what many thought would never happen.
However, as I reflect back on the election I could not help but acknowledge what this election meant to the entire African-American community. It said to the world that black men and black women still had healthy relationships, that we have the ability to love our women and they have the ability to love their men. It said to the sisters that you could support your man and still get your shine on. It said to brothers that with a good sister’s love WE can do ANYTHING. Even become the President of the United States. It said to the young brothers and sisters that you could REALLY BE ANYTHING you want to be if you put your mind to it. I even went as far as suggesting to a friend that the next stop on brothers and sisters changing the world was going to be the Vatican. Nonetheless, it also said that black men did take care of their children and not all of us were leaving our women to raise our children alone. It said to the elders in the African-American communities across this country that we as a generation cared about more than just our high paying jobs, nice homes, nice cars, and fancy clothes. It said that we are prepared to take the weight and as much as we as a generation want and need your help we are prepared to go get it on our own. It said that we are the sum of your pain and hopes and when you look at us you can now say job well done.
What happened last night said to an entire community not only yes we can, but we MUST not only does our lives depend on it, but our children’s children lives depend on it. It said in no uncertain terms that whenever we hear a dream no matter how far fetched we may think it is we must nurture it and help it grow. I am sure somewhere in some barber or beauty shop somebody said they ain’t letting no black man become President and now look at where we are. We told the world we are more than just what you see on BET. We are a community of people young and old who are ambitious, smart and resilient and in the fail clutches of circumstances we will not be denied.
Finally not only did we provide HOPE for generations to come, but we provided CHANGE for the here and now. We changed the way our neighbors saw us as we rallied behind not just a candidate but a cause, a cause that said to them through their children that we must move beyond those things that separate us, but those things that unite us. Last night behind that mantra of HOPE and CHANGE we said to the rest of the nation and the world not only as a community are we going to shake off the ties that bind us, but we are freeing you in the process as well. It started with Yes We Can and ended somewhere around 11:00pm on November 4, 2008 with Yes We Did.
Enjoy this Victory because we ALL have worked in some capacity long and hard.
I AM
Irvin PeDro Cohen
www.irvincohen.com
What’s good? I hope this email finds you and yours in the best of health and spirits as we not only as a community, but a country bask in what we just witnessed. I don’t know about you, but I know for me I just seem to be a little bit taller and as my younger brother’s would say my swagger just got a little bit more energized. What we had the pleasure to witness not only told the story of what we can do if we as a nation put behind the petty difference of race and focus on the greater good because it took not only our community, but it took the folks in places like Iowa and New Hampshire to help us see what many thought would never happen.
However, as I reflect back on the election I could not help but acknowledge what this election meant to the entire African-American community. It said to the world that black men and black women still had healthy relationships, that we have the ability to love our women and they have the ability to love their men. It said to the sisters that you could support your man and still get your shine on. It said to brothers that with a good sister’s love WE can do ANYTHING. Even become the President of the United States. It said to the young brothers and sisters that you could REALLY BE ANYTHING you want to be if you put your mind to it. I even went as far as suggesting to a friend that the next stop on brothers and sisters changing the world was going to be the Vatican. Nonetheless, it also said that black men did take care of their children and not all of us were leaving our women to raise our children alone. It said to the elders in the African-American communities across this country that we as a generation cared about more than just our high paying jobs, nice homes, nice cars, and fancy clothes. It said that we are prepared to take the weight and as much as we as a generation want and need your help we are prepared to go get it on our own. It said that we are the sum of your pain and hopes and when you look at us you can now say job well done.
What happened last night said to an entire community not only yes we can, but we MUST not only does our lives depend on it, but our children’s children lives depend on it. It said in no uncertain terms that whenever we hear a dream no matter how far fetched we may think it is we must nurture it and help it grow. I am sure somewhere in some barber or beauty shop somebody said they ain’t letting no black man become President and now look at where we are. We told the world we are more than just what you see on BET. We are a community of people young and old who are ambitious, smart and resilient and in the fail clutches of circumstances we will not be denied.
Finally not only did we provide HOPE for generations to come, but we provided CHANGE for the here and now. We changed the way our neighbors saw us as we rallied behind not just a candidate but a cause, a cause that said to them through their children that we must move beyond those things that separate us, but those things that unite us. Last night behind that mantra of HOPE and CHANGE we said to the rest of the nation and the world not only as a community are we going to shake off the ties that bind us, but we are freeing you in the process as well. It started with Yes We Can and ended somewhere around 11:00pm on November 4, 2008 with Yes We Did.
Enjoy this Victory because we ALL have worked in some capacity long and hard.
I AM
Irvin PeDro Cohen
www.irvincohen.com
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