In a few hours, Barack Obama is going to give a speech that will effect history.
If he succeeds in his message, there is a hope for reconciliation within this country. If he transcends as the first black man in history to become a nominee for President of the United States, it will be a testimony to we Americans and to the world, that we can be a diverse culture and still rally together in our differences, rather than fragment and ultimately fail as a society.
If he fails, or if American’s fail him, it will be a tragedy that will be for another generation to try and heal.
The nuances of Mr. Obama’s speech today are not only about how social-gospel issues are addressed by different racial groups, political persuasions, and religious entities, but it has everything to do with gender and gender-identity issues as well.
We, as GLBT people, have a lot at stake in this election. For once, this election will address, whether people want to or not, these issues in terms of being inclusive or being further marginalized and even demonized.
And without an inclusive race and gender society as the base, the horrible problems of war and economics in all of our interest cannot ever be solved.
I would direct you to a powerful essay I just read from Andrew Sullivan, a well-known gay, conservative blogger.
Andrew Sullivan’s essay can be found here; http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.co...
Whether you support Barack Obama or not, whether you support Republicans or Democrats or Independents is not the issue at this moment, the issue is inclusiveness.
We need inclusiveness.
It is the kind of message that I sincerely hope Barack Obama is going to share with us that we as a country, as a society, as a diverse collection of peoples need.
I too have this hope.