New Skin

I find it so very refreshing to hear Obama speaking the language of peace, hope and understanding to his fellow citizens. His words flow in stark contrast to the deranged vocabulary employed by the Bush administration these past eight years. If only for a brief moment, such liberating winds of change once again feel warm and right, as Americans gleefully shed that old, itchy skin of near-tyranny, replacing it instead with a newer, healthier epidermis. The election of Barack Obama to the Presidency is a hugely symbolic event, and not just because of the colour of his skin. I hope that truly for the first time in her history, the United States of America will seize this opportunity to employ the might of her collective will for positive transformation.
Obama will not be a perfect President, this is for certain, and portions of white middle America may never give a black man a chance. But the message is out there now, the ball is rolling. The majority of Americans are happy again because they feel that their democratic system may actually have worked this time.
If only for this moment, I'm joyful that I have been witness to the shedding of the wrinkled flesh of white aristocracy for a face more representative of what America once stood for. Opportunity.