What is wrong with being black?: why Obama victory is resounding victory for Blacks

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” Alice Walker

Last weekend i happened to spend three quarters of my time indoors, most of that time glued on telly on GOD channel, which i must admit is not a bad place to waste off a boring weekend. A session by one evangelist going with the catch line "what is wrong with being black " caught my attention. Up to now, i am yet to find out why he used that line in the first place if he thought there was nothing wrong in being black! To put it simply, this evangelist's idea of trying to demonstrate that there is nothing wrong with being black, is itself in bad faith. It replays that intrinsic con notion that "there is something wrong with being black, but that wrong is not extensively damaging".
Thank God that Barack Obama , he the famous "that one" has disproved these theories, i thank God he is Black. And what even makes me feel that black race is a great race is the way he kept the race issue out of it. For those black Americans, who have waited forever for emancipation, the time has come, the time to realize that dream : that men will be judged by the content of their character and not the color of their skin.
Yet again, i see a more emboldened black race, and more inspired world, that this Obama campaign has wrought. As he put it, "your victory", i envisaged what hell it would have been for him to drive home his message without the confidence from the party supporters, from the Black and other regarded "minorities". The resounding message: You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.
It was not a mediocre campaign, but a professional, elitist, well grounded and strategical, again the message: It doesn't come on a silver platter.
I salute Obama, even if i were white or yellow, i would still salute him, he has defied the odds, and made history, am proud to be part of that history - as a Kenyan.
Long live Barack Obama, Long live America, long live Africa!
--Shujaa Mkenya - KENYA.