Just Venting- Our Future or Our Past

[Nanette Buchanan]

Just Venting- Our Future or Our Past?

Over the past week while we as Americans anxiously await what will become the most significant event in Black History, American History, our doubts have begun to surface. What will the President do? How much can he accomplish? Will he favor blacks more than whites? Will he become another political puppet for the white man?
These questions were thought but not spoken, accept behind closed doors immediately after the election. We, those of us who sincerely sought a change, had no doubt that Barrack Obama was the obvious choice. There was no doubt that a Black man could do the job that no other dared to do. There was no doubt that White America no longer trusted their own. The day is now upon us and some of those same marchers, campaigners, democrats, converted republicans, and voters have questions; doubt.
Our past, for those of us who truly know our history was filled with doubt. There was the doubt that we would ever be more than slaves…….the doubt that we would ever read, write, be educated, or cast a vote…….the doubt that we would ever have justice, equal rights…….the doubt that we ever would become Astronauts, Physicians, Scientist, Lawyers, Judges….the doubt that we would ever sit in the White House as the President…..but it has been done. What were the questions in our past? Could Harriet Tubman be serious about the Underground Railroad…..Who would think that Booker T Washington would pioneer higher education..Who questioned the inventions of George Washington Carver….Who questioned Dr. Martin Luther King, Malcom X…….Johnny Cochran……Who questioned the pioneers….Jackie Robinson…..Joe Louis….Louis Armstrong…..Who questioned Dr. Mae Jemison who went from teaching to the moon….Who questioned Muhammad Ali who fought in the ring and refused to fight the war…
Where was our doubt when millions marched in Selma, Birmingham, Montgomery, Washington, D.C. and fought against segregation never questioning our leadership?
If we truly believe in Barrack Obama and his choice in his cabinet and advisors, our past must give light to our future. We’ve come this far by faith, make no mistake about it. God is with our Black President as He has been with all of our pioneers. It is by Faith that they took the steps necessary to lead us through the valley.
God is with our President and it is our faith in God and our trust in Barrack Obama that will carry us onward.