Is Obama The Answer To Equality?

Barrack Obama has overcome adversity in a country that only four decades ago had truly begun its fight against racism and segregation. It was written on the faces of over a hundred thousand people, ???Hope??? and ???Change???, tears of joy, the jubilant crowds across the world celebrating a democracy that had just broken the barriers of race and color to elect its first African American President.

Does this mean Obama is the answer to equality? Has he truly epitomized the missions of such great men as Martin Luther King JR. and Ghandi, who fought for freedom over the course of their lifetimes? It appears that not only has Barrack Obama set the stage for a change long needed, but he represents every bit of hope we have in a new world.

Imagine the weight on President Elect Obama??™s shoulders when he woke up yesterday morning, the sheer monstrosity of the task ahead. Equality is defined as the condition or quality of being equal, is the election of Barrack Obama in retrospect the final outcome of a long hard fight for equality?

The answer slaps you in the face, YES, we have finally seen that in the fight for us all to be equal, for color not to play a part, for a great man despite his race was chosen to run one of the greatest countries in the world, that we are all created equal, we all can be whoever and whatever we want to be.

Martin Luther King JR. once said ???A genuine Leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.??? This could not be truer than what has been represented by Obama, who has taken the technology available to rock the country to vote. Old, young, White, Asian, Black, and Hispanic showed up in record numbers to let known that they would be heard.

It was history for so many reasons, but mostly to represent that no matter who you are, or where you came from this man represented to us all a new found faith.

A freedom this country we call America stands for, the pride of holding high the red, white, and blue. We are a great country that craves a need for change; with so much against us, we have elected a leader who can bring that change to the forefront.

We have, with the events of November 4, 2008, proven to the world we are ready to unite and fight for a change needed across the globe. A new found sense of pride in us, a desire to make a difference and it has all been created by one man, living out the messages of those who came before him. So many have died; giving their lives so that man such as Barack Obama who sends the message YES I CAN, will rise up like a phoenix from the ashes.

Mahatma Gandhi, one of the worlds??™ greatest men once said ??? A man is but the product of his thoughts, what he thinks, he becomes.??? He would be proud of what Obama has accomplished for he epitomizes not only this statement, but everything a man who sacrificed his life was fighting for.