The Inauguration of a Man

Today is the inauguration of President Barach Obama. One, if not "the" most important day in our country's history. How many people have found themselves lessened by the seperation and categorization of race. What have we not learned because of this? What will we learn now? Today is the start in the right direction. Not an end, a beginning. Hundreds of years, cast of thousands, millions, a production when all that was needed was the application of Ockham's Razor...Dayenu (It would have been sufficient. )It would've sufficed. Look at what it took to be where we are today. The Yale poet put it simply: Say it plain, many have died for this day. A civil war where men picked up weapon against friend, brother, father against son. Civil rights that had to be taught and taught again and again. What is right in schools and in church , in business and in government and on the playground and field. We would like to believe that today we have arrived at understanding. Let us not be placated and complacent. We believe we know the importance of the words that "all men are created equal" until someone or something makes us feel justified to be as prejudiced as the next guy. And then we're uncomfortable with the dichotomy of it all. This too shall pass and we will be whole, we will be one. When we can look at a man and refer to him as a man without other identifiers then we will have arrived. I am proud and pleased that we have at least lived to see this day. Today Dr King's dream has begun to be realized, Today Rosa Parks has found a comfortable seat of her choosing.