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LETTER: AJC - 2009 Inaugural Edition
Hopes for Our Future
As we welcome our 44th President, a man who knows how to soar with out leaving the ground, I am gorgeously optimistic and full of love for all the people of our nation. For whether our American beginnings were as native born inhabitants or as European adventurers or as those in flight from religious persecution or as the poor but hardy in search of economic sustenance or as shiploads of diasporic Africans forced into servitude as free labor to help build our nation… even so, we are all of us Americans now. We are all of us: We, the People.
In The Souls of Black Folk (1901), W. E. B. Dubois foresaw that “the problem of the Twentieth Century [would be] the problem of the color line.” If ever there were a mandate for America in the Twenty-First Century, Dubois’ prescience insists that we rid ourselves of any racialist residue and put that burden behind us. We have had enough of culture wars that make some of us large by making others small.
A page has turned upon which that first essential is written. The second demands that we examine the foolhardiness of living on cruise control while indulging our meaner selves with mindless consumerism. Our dour economy is presently priming us to discern what is short-term and destructive and what is constructive and instructive for the long haul. We have had enough of Greed disavowing our commitment to serve as our brothers and sisters’ keepers.
The third insists that we re-consider the hubris of American “exceptualism” as manifested by the imposition of our will and ways upon other. We have had enough of warmongering for personal profit disguised as keeping us safe by democratizing other nations. We have had enough of those who, dissatisfied with having most, must have all.
A call has gone out for an awakening of ideals as contretemps to the cynicism, self-aggrandizement, conceit and self-deception of recent times. A summons has been served to We, the People demanding a governance fortified by common sense, the triumph of hope over fear and a faith in the indomitable will of the American people at their best.
We cannot, we must not, we will not settle for anything less.
MSU GA Alumni Scholarship Event
MSU President Dinner/Reception August 1, 2009 at
Landon's Restaurant,
3752 Cascade Road ~ Suite 100
Atlanta, GA 30331
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