As we watched the election results pour in on that fateful November evening, each and everyone of us must have been thinking something different, all with intense feelings a paradigm shift for our country and our world. Could this be the end of a disastrous era of an American hegemony that has strangled the world of its children, ideas and resources? Can we have really after 8 years of struggle really be as King said "free at last!"?
So much emotion, so much happiness but what does it mean? Could the world that we have been fighting for be at our footsteps with the election of a President that stands for change, one that organized workers on the decaying post-industrial streets of South Chicago?
What Obama and the left needs now is to not be complacent. We know now that our work has only began and we certainly can't count on allowing our elected officials to be the change that President Obama campaigned on. It is even more important now, as our neighborhoods suffer from economic crisis and fear that we organize. More than any time now, America is ready for things to be different than the way that they have been, and though this we have the unique opportunity to unite as one people and address the problems that are facing all of us throughout our global communion.
We have an amazing opportunity right now to be the change in which we wish to see in the world, but being the change is a challenge of unprecedented proportions. A new president will help, but we must not let us become complacent and lazy in our work towards social change.
So lets go out and organize!
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