A Change Is Going to Come

As i write this, i am listening to the Barack Obama speech or race and politics. As i listen and listen again, something keeps standing out to me.

Barack Obama said,

"I am the son of a black man from Kenya and a white woman from Kansas. I was raised with the help of a white grandfather who survived a Depression to serve in Patton's Army during World War II and a white grandmother who worked on a bomber assembly line at Fort Leavenworth while he was overseas. I've gone to some of the best schools in America and lived in one of the world's poorest nations. I am married to a black American who carries within her the blood of slaves and slaveowners - an inheritance we pass on to our two precious daughters. I have brothers, sisters, nieces, nephews, uncles and cousins, of every race and every hue, scattered across three continents, and for as long as I live, I will never forget that in no other country on Earth is my story even possible. "

Now this stands out to me, especially, FOR AS LONG AS I LIVE, I WILL NEVER FORGET THAT IN NO OTHER COUNTRY ON EARTH IS MY STORY EVEN POSSIBLE

so is this true, will there ever be a BARACK OBAMA type in ENGLAND, IN FRANCE, IN GERMANY OR ANY OF THE G8 COUNTRIES.

If you have ever being to America or have witnessed African American culture, you would begin to understand that even through the discomfort of racism, inequality, crime and poverty, there is still a sense of belonging within their culture. African Americans tend to unite, support and make things happen more than "African Europeans". If you look through history, Malcolm X or Martin Luther King would not have being heard if no one was listening, if no one was supporting them and if no one was encouraging their fight for equality.

In the UK, people of African origin seem so divided and then we wonder why there might not be a Barack Obama type. The Africans are always fighting the Jamaicans, or everyone is hating on the Somalians. Can somebody please educate them and let them know that we are all from the same place? Without unity, we can never move forward. I would like to see someone with an African origin contest to direct No 10 Downing street and indeed the doings of the UK, i would like to see someone like me(same skin colour, same hair, same nose) at least try to be the Prime minister.

I am African, and i have lived in this western world a while now to see the differences among African Americans, African Europeans and Africans. (Note that i believe that we are all the same)

Just like the Africans in America lead the civil rights movement, I believe that Barack Obama has opened some doors for a lot people of African origin in the western world. I personally would like to see him become the PRESIDENT of the USA.

YES WE CAN is a very powerful phrase, note that he didn't say YES I CAN, or YES YOU CAN, he said, YES WE CAN

In order for us to move forward as a race, let us unite, come together and push each other along.

After all we all from the same place, that makes us brothers and sisters.

A change is going to come, a change has come

YES WE CAN