A View of the World



Celebrations in Kenya, Indonesia, and across Europe. Impromptu street celebrations across the US. Well over 60% of the American voting public cast their ballots, some weeks or months ahead of time. Voting irregularities were minimal at best, non-existent in most areas.

Barack Obama is the 44th President of the United States of America.

Born of parents from different races, different cultures, different beliefs; he lived in different cultures, nations and neighborhoods. He traveled across oceans and nations as a child. He experienced languages, diversity, the richness of cultures so unlike the American experience.

Yet he remains an American model. He is someone to look up to, someone to admire, someone to strive to be like.

How wonderful it would be if, in a few years, young children add his picture to their wall, along side the sports heroes and other cultural icons of our age.

How meaningful it would be if , in the coming months and years, people truly become colorblind.

Wouldn't it be just astounding if, instead of looking at our differences and dismaying at the gaps that keep us apart, we begin to look at our similarities, and revel in our shared diversity.

Wouldn't it be just perfect if in our lifetime, we take a world view and the world takes a world view. In many ways, this world already is a small neighborhood inhabited by families that sometimes get along and sometimes don't.

In the flatness that is our world, it is just grand that this leader, our leader, brings us back into the world through his vision, experience, and intelligence.

It is about time.