Last night I had the pleasure of having a conversation with an old friend of mine, who I went to high school with, who is here studying as well about the state of our country. Perhaps being here makes things more lucid, I am often having moments of clarity especially on issues concerning the United States. Being here, in a country anxious for democracy to work, yet being from a country that prides itself on longstanding democracy, and continues to despite everything to puff up its inflated view of itself to a point that it willing to let our planet die a sloy and painful death, leads me to believe that the change we need to make in the next year needs to be a slightly more radical one than many people are willing to admit. But I hestitate to use the word "radical," because that riles up conotations of a lost era, rather what I mean by radical is we must return to the roots of our society and government and how we once were. It is radical in the sense that it is so far from what we have now: we have fallen so off the mark, so far off into absurdity that we must unite this country so that we can deal with poverty, healthcare, education.
I want you to take thirty minutes to watch a speech that Barack Obama gave in Manning, South Carolina. I want you to listen to what he says whole-heartedly; he speaks to the idea of transformation, aspiration, hope, return, he speaks to humaness, a sense of person that trancsends politics, and is driven to make the world a better place. And in my mind, from where I stand we would be doing ourselves a disservice to say one more time, "this country can´t elect a Black president" or "he doesn´t have enough experience...." Well for chirstake, we elected the worst president known to the US, with the most heartless, lying team of greedy bastards to cheat the American people along with him, that perhaps it is time we challanged ourselves. We are so far deep, that only a radical change, a shift, a return, a challenge to the institutions that run the United States, will bring us out.