For over the last twelve months, when the red fought the blue, when one raised his voice over another, when questions were raised and when debates took over, I sat on the apathy chair watching evening news, moving my toes. I just sat. I forwarded emails to prove my depth of dips in politics or business. I watched you-tube play its games, gazed over various facebook status proclamations, read one hopeful story after another. While I didn’t preach, I didn’t listen either. I just sat. I was the silent types when it came to politics especially when the country wasn’t mine.
While I never indulged in left wing, right wing arguments, I didn’t set aside my monthly allowance to contribute to either campaigns. Like I said before, I just sat. I never chanted songs of change. I didn’t ‘maverick’ my way through dull conversations. I didn’t participate in twitter bashing, nor did I angle my dislikes towar
ds one or the other.
Today, I stand up. Because today he told me, it didn’t matter if I was black or brown or white or orange. It didn’t matter if I was American or not. Today, he didn’t talk about changing 1 year or 10 or 20 but he talked about changing 100. So today, I refuse to just sit on the apathy chair with flickering toes and an indifferent mind.
Today I am happy to see that color doesn’t matter, potential does, hope does, change does.
Today, I stand up and give up my “silent types” seat. Any takers?
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Bravo! I just watched, after getting home from work, the victory speech… and the words, though muted, ring out loud!
We can! That’s a heck of a lot of positivity and possibility to motivate and inspire!
I’m glad he won.. not for anything else, but at least for proving that…
We can!!
I liked this post v much…
i agree completely…u summed up my feelings so well!
I agree with you- Even though this country isn’t ours, it’s hard not to get excited when such an important piece of history is taking place right in front of our eyes.
I’ve had ‘Obama fever’ for some time now, especially after reading one of his books. Very happy that he won!
Nope, don’t want the ’silent type’ seat, not after today’s speech.
Here via Usha Pisharody’s blog. Loved this post, every word of that Victory Speech , also when he said,he would always be honest, and he would listen to them, specially when they disagree. The speech had me wanting to jump in joy and disbelief. Yes we can
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@usa pisharody
Thank you so much! I read the script of his speech again and couldn’t contain my excitement for what’s next!
@ nea
glad I did
@dhivya arasappan
I will try to get hold of his book for sure..don’t know why I didn’t read it yet.
Absolutely true…every word you have written…that is exactly how I or for that matter, lot of us feel!
I am definitely going to read his book! Obama Obama……
hey good one..
That was a really inspirational speech!
That gave me goosebumps:)
lets see what he can do:)
cheers
You summoned up what I felt totally!
Hats off..
I loved those lines as well–>>Yes we CAN.
I reaaallly hope Obama lives by all these expectations.
Cheers
It was great to see people has look beyond the color of skin:).
Obama inspired people like me many others to vote
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I can finaly say that….
Finaly monkey of the back!
GO OBAMA!
Nice post. Absolute conscious and honest thoughts.
And thanks for dropping by my blog!
an accurate representation
Wish could say the same about the state of politics here. Its seems to be going from bad to worse.
But the important question is,now that you aren’t a ’silent type’, what do you intend to do?
Silence in speech wouldn’t matter if there were loudness in actions.
If there is silence in action, that only means a loss of Love (or Hate), even if there’s a cacophony in speech.
So I believe silence or loudness in speech doesn’t matter. What matters is action.
Hopefully Obama won’t stay silent in action.