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"I cannot STAND anymore of this black pride thing. He's a man - doesn't matter what color. All I care is can he do the job to the best of his ability and will he accept Jesus Christ. That's ALL I care about. I am so over all this making his family a celebrity and parading it all over the news. I am sick of black people rising up and saying that this is great for them. Well white people never held rallies to say what great things any white president did for us. This is becoming very racial, whether people say he's breaking down barriers or not. I don't like groups of people holding rallies because of their race or color. It's stupid."
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Well, let's make this personal. It is REALLY good to see a strong, Black, Christian family celebrated in the news. I grew up surrounded by families just like the Obamas, but they weren't celebrated. Instead, the news celebrated the dysfunctions in the Black community. That's all one would ever see, played out over and over again. It was easy to think that Black families made no contribution to the nation at all...now, that wasn't true, but watching the news and the absence of people from my side of the mountain on the red carpets or in the House of Representatives or in the White House, you got the impression we had little to offer, were hopelessly unpopular, and would forever be in need of a whole lot of help!
So I DO care that this highly popular, highly intelligent Christian man now holds the most powerful office in the world. It does matter. I rise up every day asking the Lord to help our new President do his job well. God knows it is no easy job to represent and serve the needs of every constituency in the nation when some of those constituencies don't like each other very much.
As for rallying behind our President, it's not the worst thing we can be doing with our time. If we can get the world parading behind America again, it means that the United States is a leading symbol again and we could all use some more of that in these hard times. No country leads just because it says so, we need to be able to look over our shoulder to see nations that actually DESIRE to follow us.
Finally, a reality check. African Americans did not invent the issue that people continue to have about our skin color. If anything was or is stupid, that's it right there. Until Blacks started to rally in recent decades to say that "Black is beautiful," Black people were portrayed as ugly, dumb, useless, dangerous, dirty, subservient, etc., you name it. So to have arrived at a day when folks of all colors and all nations are actually celebrating a strong and loving Black family as the First Family...well, I am, and we are stunned.
Frankly—and I don't use this word lightly—it's a miracle. God is up to something special here.
See, I am doing a new thing!
Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?
I am making a way in the desert
and streams in the wasteland.
- Isaiah 43:19
With love always,
James
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