Thank You!

To each and every one of you who participated in our Democracy by voting in yesterday’s election, which resulted in a clear cut victory for President Obama, and as a result America- I just want to offer my deep and sincere appreciation, concern and respect for you as a human being and as an American.

I have not been able to relax for quite some time for the past 4 years, because I knew that when America elected its first African American President,(after the joyous celebration was over), it would awaken the Sleeping Giant that had almost devoured America in the past:

RACISM!

Yes! RACISM is alive and well and flourishing in America, and it never ceased to exist.

It just took the election of the first African American President to bring it from the deep recesses of America’s Collective Consciousness into the Mainstream of our American Political System.

I also knew that the level of Enthusiasm and Political Activism on the part of those who played a major role in the successful election of President Obama the first time would be greatly diminished this time, because the novelty of electing the First Black President would wear off.

However, during the entire early voting period and yesterday, I was pleasantly surprised to find out that I was wrong. In the midst of a Hurricane, Voter Suppression and other natural and manmade disasters; President Obama won 93 percent of African-Americans, 71 percent of Hispanics, and 73 percent of Asians. He also took 55 percent of the overall female vote, down one percentage point from 2008, and a whopping 60% of the youth vote.

Fantastic!

So even though there was a slight decrease from the number of people who came out in 2008 for the president; for the most part, the same groups and almost the same number of people helped win this election for President Obama and America.

Now What?

Well for sure, we cannot do what we did after the last election, which was to just leave the president to fend for himself all alone in the never ending fight to achieve Freedom, Justice and Equality for all Americans no matter what the color of their skin is, their last name, how they worship GOD, or who they want to spend their lives with.

And we cannot expect this Black President to be a Super Hero that can accomplish miracles overnight that White Presidents before him could not accomplish, (while facing some of the greatest Racial and Political Opposition and hatred that I have ever witnessed since I began following politics as closely as I do now), which I have been doing since 1991when I first got hooked on Tim Russert on Meet the Press.

When President Obama talked about “Change We Can Believe In”, notice that he did not say “Change I Can Believe In”, he said “We”, not “I”. That’s because no president or any other elected official, (Black or White), can effectively and efficiently govern over anything, (especially an entire country like the United States of America), without the support of the people who elected them.

And if anybody that you talk to thinks this president or any other president can restore and save the whole country without the consistent support of the people, then you have 1 of 2 choices: You can teach them about the Political Process in the American Democracy, (because they obviously don’t know how the process works). Or, you can just ignore them and not waste your time if they are not interested in acquiring new knowledge.

But in any event, from here on out, we have to continue to be Politically Active as much as time and circumstances permit. And we must help President Obama to help the country. Because just like 2008 and hundreds of years before then- RACISM is still a dominant factor that affects a large number of people’s view of this president, this country and the world.

As a matter of fact, some people are so filled with ignorance and hatred that they don’t even want to acknowledge the natural laws of the universe that we are all subject to.

So I want to thank each and every one of you for the contributions and sacrifices that you made during this Presidential Election, which prevented us from going in a different direction, (which is how Mitt Romney Described it in his recession speech this morning); and that direction would have undoubtedly been backwards.

I also want to encourage you to remain alert, knowledgeable and active in the never ending pursuit of Freedom, Justice and Equality. These are the True American Values that we are all entitled to as Americans.

However, whenever we relax and take our eyes off of those values and their attainment, that is when we give the people who are always standing behind the scenes, (or as they have been in the past 4 years), right in our faces- the opportunity to take these precious values from us. President Obama needed you to win the election.

And now he needs your continued support to succeed.

Please continue to give it to him.

http://www.usa.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml

Thank you, G.R.C.