Why Can't We?

With February being Black History Month, you should know that it's time of remembering the important people and events in the history of the African Diaspora. However, I'm not writing this post to honor famous figures and leaders, but more about referring to civil rights.

Through the 1900s there was a great outcry of African American men and women calling for the world to look at them and call them brothers and sisters. In today's world, that call has been long since answered. No longer do we face the type of situations this country once did, though sadly there is the occasional happening.

There is probably no greater achievement in the world of today, than that of this country's Democratic candidate for president, Barack Obama. But great achievements in America's government just don't lie with Barack, there is also the 66th United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

When this country was founded, and I'm referring to the drafting of the Declaration of Independence, there is a key phrase that I believe continues to go slightly unnoticed. Thomas Jefferson, a slave owner and this country's third president, wrote the words, "...a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal." And today we certainly live by these words, but I don't think we have truly learned to live by them. If we did, Al Sharpton would be out of a job; if we did, nobody would pull out their Race Card; if we did, we wouldn't make it a big deal when white men support Obama, and Hispanics back Hillary, and having a Mormon or Baptist candidate wouldn't be an issue. If God in Heaven can look down on us and say red and yellow, black and white, we are precious in his sight, than why can't we?