The time is now.

Same Cooke said, "I know a change gonna come." Well change is finally here. Last night I admit that I shed a few tears as the results came in. Our country has changed. Obviously a lot of people will talk about the unprecedented black vote. More importantly Latinos, young people who no longer see race as a factor, and the highly educated changed the face of the election. For so long the thought was that small town America and "Joe the plumber" decides elections. We now see that they no longer do. And if the Republican party is to bounce back, they must learn that the America they cater to is shrinking. I have heard from so many that Obama's campaign was a movement, and it clearly was. Who else could have brought so many people of different races together? What else could have unleashed an multiracial army on the city of Gary to help win Indiana for Obama? That was something that gave me a sense of pride and mad me feel like I was a part of it.

Today I went to the Save-more (local grocery store in Gary) to buy a newspaper (all the papers in the city were sold out by the way). Today I was proudly wearing my Obama shirt and buttons. An elderly black man, whom I have never met, came up to me and gave me a hug, and said, "We did it". We not black, not white, but we. The community in which we live has waited for something, anything to give them hope. We have searched for a true leader, not a black leader, but a leader of all people. We have wandered in the desert for some forty years, after we lost our Moses, but we have truly found our Joshua.

As we remember our Moses





We look forward to the future that our Joshua is bringing