It's amazing how a speech delivered with so much heart and sincerity could summon the tears from a person's eye to fall even without actually having personal attachment with the person giving the speech.
This was what I felt while I was watching USA's President-Elect Barack Obama delivering his acceptance speech in Chicago after I opened my internet browser's homepage (which had strictly yahooed every significant details of the US Presidential Election on their page), not intending to keep abreast with the political hubbubs happening on the other side of the globe. He, indeed, from the very first time I have learned that this man of negro descent is the Democrat's fish for the highly-revered seat at the White House, is the most worthy successor of the highest position in the world's most powerful country.
I must admit that I share the same sentiments with the "people with colored skins" in the US for being maltreated and inhumanely prejudiced by some of the white men before, or probably even until now, who think of themselves as the only people who deserve the land for which, in the first place, no one but the native Americans, who by nature are one of those "colored" people, truly deserve.
Even until now, most oftenly not in the United States though, the white men still highly consider themselves as if they were the only race who were blessed for being so wealthy, healthy and mighty, or so they think, and that people of colored skin are inferior to their direful beings.
If you haven't heard yet of the case of a Pinoy celebrity who, although was born to a father belonging to a white race in a powerful country in Europe, still experienced discriminatory acts from people around him, which he could have probably treated as good friends, then I might say you're oblivious of this fact. Even more, and which is much obvious among us, the whites imposed upon us the false belief that a white skin spells beauty, wealth, sophistication, cleanliness and acceptance while a brown or black one is a dire remonstration of the "good" things brought about by being white. How disgusting!
Going back to the case in the US, apart from the native Americans who should have been the sole owners of the American soil, the African Americans, who endured centuries of slavery and discrimination, have long clamored for a country which truly embody the ideals of the forefathers of the US - peace, justice, equality, liberty and all other terms which sum up a unified and democratic nation.
Sadly, for centuries, these were only good in paper and were not actualized even under the influence of a religion which teaches its people to consider their neigbor as his brother or sister, much like being a people who share the same flesh and blood but devoid of color, race, language, culture and creed.
Time has witnessed the violence and inhumane treatment of the whites among the "colored" ones, specifically the descendants of the American slaves. History books have exceedingly chronicled these dark ages in the American history, which somehow, indirectly affected other people around the globe. I guess now, it's payback time - not in the same way the whites did those wrongs before though, but in a way where these kinds of people would learn to reflect on their cruelty by way of showing them how good things written on paper which is enforced to realization could create a dynamic, peaceful and loving people, which is somehow reflected on Obama's acceptance speech as the leader of the most powerful and influential country on the face of the planet. Jiayou, President Obama!
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