Program Success Barack Obama Special Edition - Page 31

THE OBAMA
IN YOU
Darryl A. Barrs, Sr.
Publisher/Managing Editor

The recent surge of Barack Obama into mainstream America
as President has been great. He has given us as African
Americans a new hope. Many of us echoed the sentiments
of Michelle Obama who stated she has never been more
proud of her country her entire adult life. For the first time in
a long time, we all feel there are great possibilities for the
advancement of us all. There maybe a chance the glassceiling will be lifted. Maybe organized racism is no longer
fashionable to wear as a badge of honor. Maybe it is that
the table of ascendancy in life has become convivial to all
regardless to race, greed, sexual orientation, and/or past
rejections.
Obama is hope. Because of his success, all of us are
looking in the closet and pulling out suitcases of talent we
have long packed away. The bell of opportunity without
notice is suddenly ringing as a surprise to us all. Those of
us who have been diligently working toward a positive future
are ready and in place. Those who were discourage by the
dark clouding of the struggle and sat in apathy eating the
malnutrition diet of television and drinking the poisonous filth
of music produced by a society without the slimmest sight
of hope, of course are totally unprepared for this moment
in time.
I am reminded of the Bible story Jesus told us of the Talents
where upon traveling on a journey, a man dispersed talents
(a portion of money) to his servants. To one he gave five
talents, to another three, and another one. Then the man,
the Bible s