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At last, the dawn of a new era is here!

Nov 16, 2008 Letters

Dear Editor,
Whether anyone likes it or not, whether anyone believes it or not, whether anyone accepts it or not, the Barack Obama victory has definitely rekindled new hope and renewed vision, reassurance, faith and a belief, (even with a tinge of stubbornness yet in some) in people of all races and hues across the globe.

This tumultuous, momentous and historic Obama victory by a man of colour — an African-American — has struck the world like a thunderbolt, and has left many dumbfounded beyond explanation.

But the late, great American signer Sam Cooke prophetically sang a long time ago a song that has been adopted .as the anthem of Black Americans…”It’s been a long time coming, but a change is gonna come”.

The mixture of people, the blend of faces – blacks, whites and Latinos, etc. — that gathered in hundreds of thousands to hear his victory speech were all in a mood of highly emotional bliss and were intensely focused: they hung on his every word, infants, youths, grown-ups and the elderly.

This was indeed a pleasing and moving sight to behold. It moved to tears even the viewers here in Guyana. This in itself is hope enough for the future.

This Obama victory has been so awesome it pushed into the background almost everything America has ever done, even the Democratic Party that he represents and brought back to victory fades into the shadows in comparison to his ascendancy to the Presidency.

This explosive, unprecedented racial twist in the White House has not only brought about a knee jerk, it has also caused a number of things all at once; ushering in profound optimism while at the same time registering the deathblow to bigotry. It changed the politics of America and the dreams and aspirations of people of colour in a way that’s almost immeasurable.

If only we could have gone into the mind of that negro woman who, at 106 years of age, got a chance for the very first time to vote a black man as President of the U.S.A, maybe we could have been able to fathom and paint a true portrait of black emotion, as represented by someone who survived the degradation of racism, someone who lived in a time when to be born black was a sin that doomed the sinner to a life in hell.

But, for now, to many, it’s a kind of “Natural Mystic” while “the spirit moves to the mystic rhythms of drums” as we people of colour recline (throw back) in sweet grace to savor a victory — the pride that a kinfolk has been catapulted to the helm of the world’s most powerful nation, that once considered us lesser mortals, and so we were treated.

But it has indeed been a long time coming, “a dream deferred” that never “dried up like a raisin in the sun”, and ours is the honour and glory that so many only dreamed of and died for. But, at last, the dawn of a new era is here.
Frank Fyffe

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