Audacity of Hope

Audacity of Hope

I was traveling from LA to India.

After boarding the flight from LA; I started reading book which was given to me as a gift by one of my friend. The book was written by Elected President Barrack Obama. His thoughts on reclaiming American Dream!

I was not reading for just sake of reading; when I turn each page I was able to feel the humiliation of his; who was struggling to reclaim American Dream!

Page 3 – “You realize don’t you, that the political dynamics have changed,” he said as he picked at his salad.

“What do you mean”, I asked, knowing full well what he meant. We both looked down at news paper beside him. There, on the front page, Osama Bin Laden. “Hell of thing isn’t it?” he said, shaking his head. “Really bad luck; you can’t change your name, of course. Voters are suspicious of that kind of thing”. (Obama and his friend, a media consultant)

Page 10 – I am suspicious of using government to impose anybody’s religious beliefs-including my own-on non believers. Furthermore I am a prisoner of my own biography.

Page 11 – I reject a politics that is based on racial identity………

Page 210 – and then he (Mr.Keyes) added for good measure that because I was not a descendants of slaves….

Page 211 – “This is a disaster!”…….”What about white guys!!!” (On hearing Obama to be selected for Illinois)

He has set a big task for himself (in this book and for his life). He was born to Harvard-educated Kenyan economist and a white mother from Kansas, and was raised by his white maternal grandparents. He wrote his first book in 1955 - Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance. A much unusually frank document for his current position. Blunt write ups about his feelings.

Acting alone among contemporary politicians, He proved great potential to break the current red–blue impasse and construct a new politics that is progressive. Barack Obama have to demonstrate more courage than he has.

He requires audacity not only of hope –but- of action.

Show American people and the world in concrete ways what his imagined America/World will look like. Phenomenon may be the right word; if Barack Obama can do that.