The President and his Identitea

Barack Obama is the 44Th President of the United States.

What I find truly amazing is how the public has found their new messiah, which leads to the next big biblical question, was Jesus black, and is Barack Obama the Lord cometh? I mean if you think about the region of the world that Jesus was from and the climate etc. It does makes sense that he would have at least looked a little like a middle eastern man. If Hindu's believe in reincarnation, and the Catholics believe in Jesus rising from the dead. Then could it be that both happened, and somehow it happened August 4Th 1961 in Hawaii?

The correlation that I find amazing between Barack Obama and Jesus is how Jesus was criticized for walking with those who have sinned the most, the prostitutes, the criminals, the sick, the wicked, the common folks, he was the man who gave the common people hope etc. Jesus gave them HOPE for miracles of healing, prosperity, that they would be forgiven their sins and gain eternal life through him. Hope is the Obama campaign slogan.

The pitfalls of today's society have been caused by the fact that we have kicked the basic rules of life out of our lives. In corporate America the 7 deadly sins are running amok, greed has taken over our banking system, sloth our welfare system, narcissism - our television and media outlets, envy - our suburban neighborhoods, gluttony - our energy consumption, wrath - our military, pride - our government.

On inauguration day, I saw grown men and women of all walks of life crying, sobbing not only about the fact that people of color have overcome a historically oppressive society in America, but also because, what Barack Obama symbolizes is much greater than the office of the president of the most powerful nation on the planet.

He is Hope, his heritage and perspective on race transcends all of the labels that the media tries to place on him. He's sat at dinner tables and in family rooms where racial overtones are less than cordial. He's seen what most mixed people have seen, bitterness in homogeneous communities that have been stricken by socioeconomic inequalities, and systematic oppression. In most circles he's not white enough, and in others he's not black enough. He's walked a difficult path of the mixed race psychosis.

He's forced to look at the fighting parties as the mediator, for his battles are outside of the man of pure racial gene pools. His sympathetic demeanor is that which a true leader of compassion would make decisions based on whats good for all men and women. Not just "his" people.

His Power lives in his mixed heritage, for no other leader could cross platform like he can. And I honor him for his achievements.

I also honor him for what he has achieved for my son. My son of mixed blood. He's the hero I can point my son to when he's seeking someone to emulate as he begins his own identity search. My son will never look like me, and my daughter will never look like her mother. But what they embody is the best of 3 worlds, three cultures that they can draw strength from, knowledge from, and can help them formulate their very unique Identities.

If I could teach my children one thing about identity, it would be... Do not try to find your identity, but create one that others will want to embody, for a mixed child is a Genesis for the new world order.

Love Dad.

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Signing off