The Real Work Begins

For those of us that were involved with the campaign, it is now time to take a breath, recalibrate, and ready ourselves for the next move. Congratulations are due to all of you who knocked on doors, made phone calls, and/or spoke with those espousing dissident viewpoints. There are many that are excited about what has transpired this election season, and rightfully so. Thank you, Obama family, for giving us the courage and hope that concecrated usefulness brings.

Just forty years ago, MLK Jr. was gunned down on the balcony of a Memphis motel. Just twenty years ago, the crack epidimic was in full swing. And only forty hours ago, there was ungrateful cooning pervasive in American society. President-elect Obama's victory is not a referendum on those issues, but a clarion call for all Americans to overcome the divides of yesterday and look toward the promise of tomorrow.

The only way that we're going to move forward as a country is to continue the groundswell of grassroots support and action not seen since the Civil Rights movement. For too long, members of the Civil Rights generation have been calling on the Gen X and Y generations to do something. Conditions finally became uncomfortable enough to inspire change, I guess. We woke up this morning to a new generation of activists that managed to change the world, literally. Now, to make the country into our own we cannot slow up, "not for one day, not for one hour, not for one minute." We the people must come together and work for the country that we want to inhabit. President Obama can not and will not do it on his own; he needs you and I to continue the great work accomplished in the last 22 months.

Sleep well, party hard, and dream of your role to play. The challenge is enormous; the risks great; the rewards greater; and the work fulfilling. Together, we will make this country great again. Don't believe it? Well, did you believe that this black man with a Muslim name, raised in Hawaii and Indonesia could be President a year ago? Well then, put on your hard hats and grab your lunch pales because it's time to clock in.