See: www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi

I have wanted to say something about Obama since the first upset. While my eyes were on Kucinich and then Edwards, since I figured it was a corporatization of America that was at the root of our evil, I then saw what those early voters must have seen. While I thought it was necessary to have a woman leader before Obama's surprise, I began to see the promise of perhaps strengthening our country's weakest link. If we could accept a Black man as our president, as Cornel West argues in Democracy Matters, perhaps we can see that unless all are fairly represented and that we move toward this general goal, we cannot truly have a democracy. If only one black man demonstrates greatness, which by any standards millions and millions and millions already have, I was just reading Brown v. Board of Education and felt the mind of Thurgood Marshall, then every prejudicial remark has no foundation.

(If only one example belies the general prejudice then the argument is lost as a whole.) If we can stand behind this one man, certainly imperfect as all men are, and if he can hold back the desires that are let loose under the umbrella of powers granted to him in the face of our support and favor, then we shall surely have a breakthrough. For our country needs to crack the foundations of our complacency, to accept what is no longer ours to keep, for the blessing of America is that she is an experiment in accepting all.

As a nation, we must confront our fears, for the color of a man is nothing but the outward stain of the greatest weakness we project. We must fight castigation if we are to save ourselves. For the most important goal to hurdle if we are to return to our spiritual core is indentured in this moment. It is one of a deep and enduring grace. I dedicate my life to truth, the kind that resides at the edges of my passivity and calls me to participate. Every one of us makes up this country and until every one is recognized and accounted for, we are no greater than any person’s silence. I move to hold your hand in solidarity, for to be great, we must first be whole. – Mario Savioni, Wednesday, March 12, 2008 - See: www.youtube.com/watch for the above as a monologue.