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"God is Trying to Tell You Something"

...Speak Lord / Speak to me...

Tomorrow, the world will watch Barack Obama be sworn into the office of the President of the United States. He is the first Black president in the history of US democracy.

The coverage of Obama, his family, his campaign, his impending inauguration, his everything, is ridiculous. He is such a huge celebrity the world over.

Although I am young, I accurately assume that no inauguration or president has stirred this kind of buzz, media coverage, or excitement.

It isn't arbitrary and I understand the media hype: this is a Black man becoming president of a country with a heinous history of slavery, Jim Crow laws, Ku Klux Klan terrorism, and more. It is amazing.

To add to the majesty of the event, we are observing Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday (b. January 15, 1929) this Monday, this day before this historic inauguration. It seems so poetic. This man who spoke on behalf of the ideas of equality and justice, unity and acceptance for us was a part of a movement that tilled the soil of our culture with a seed of progress and open mindedness.

Martin Luther King, Jr.'s dream has not totally been realized. However, there is something to be said for the enormity of this occassion and how Obama's election serves as a barometer for how far we have come. We are almost free at last.

We are free of some of the institutional hindrances. We are free from some of our own cultural poisons. We are free from the glass ceiling. What a sensational time.

I don't have any children yet, but I can't wait to tell them, especially my boys, that God is trying to tell us something.