By Walter Nkeabeng*
What a dream come true! Yes, what a dream! Dreams are dreams and realities are realities. It requires only people like you, Barack Obama, who can effectively bring positive change to interpret their dreams correctly.
One lesson has been learned; that the God of creation is a God neither for the black nor for the white, but a God for His own creation. After all, being black or white is just a dream because we humans have been domesticated to these appellations.
In my native language, there are only three colors; black, red and white. Any thing ranging from brown, purple, red and yellow are all red; anything with the shade of black; blue and black it self are all black. Therefore, even you who because of our human domestication have been termed "black" are also "red" and the reverse is true.
True human values are not contained in these appellations but in what we as humans, be you "red" or "black" can offer the world. God can do whatever He wants and wills, and at any time. We need to stop and thank Him for reminding us that He is alive.
Thank you Lord! History has been written and has been created and we are all part of that history and what does it mean if we cannot make "GOOD" use of that history! We pray that in no distant time it shall repeat itself across the globe and especially in Africa and in our father land. That there shall be no more "Come no Goes", no more "Anglos", no more "Francos", "Sawas", "Bamis", "South Africans", Zimbabweans" etc, but one people of God's creation.
If we are where we are, it is not because God loves or hates us so much, but for a purpose. If there is a people I can congratulate, it is the American people. They have truly demonstrated the democracy they preach. Thank you the American people.
In a documentary, I saw that you, Obama, as kid, were present at the rally when one of my heroes, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., said "I have a dream." May his spirit guide you to the end.
To you Obama, thank you for burying your fears and for teaching the world that one can be whatever he wants but that one needs courage and determination to making that happen.
God bless you, God bless the people you are going to shepherd and God bless the world.
Africans in the Diaspora unite for a United Africa! "Yes I can" what about you? If you can, then we can.
Uppsala Bio-center, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
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