Well done America

America had an opportunity to right the wrongs of their forefathers. A deeply divided nation in 1776, compromising   the core beliefs of humanity by recognising 5 votes of every black as equivalent to 3 white votes (Refer: three-fifth compromise-1787); A nation which threw a black women out of a bus in Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat; A nation which reserved the darkest corners of every place by the colour of the skin; A nation which allowed women to elect their representatives in 1920, 149 years later than their male counterparts.

This nation founded on the core principles of equality and liberty produced outstanding champions time and again who spoke against this injustices, fought against them with all their might and finally gave up their hope and life. They can now sleep happily in their graves, for their nation has finally spoken with a unified voice.

Gone are the days, when black men were separated from their loving family and sold to bidders based on their genital size or body build, the moment the slave bringing ship’s reached the shores of America.(Refer: Bill Bryson-Made in USA)

Gone are the days when the Olympic champion Jesse Owens had to eat outside the stadium, for his stadium canteen in America was reserved for whites.

Gone are the days when Abraham Lincoln had to deliver a “Gettysburg masterpiece” in fewer than 400 words to make people understand –“white is not might; Equality is might”.

When Barrack Obama delivered his superb victory speech to millions some 2 hours back, a grateful nation stood watching with a tinge of remorse and guilt. He spoke not with a single voice but by a million voices which were silenced till now and when Rev. Jesse Jackson, the first black man to run for primaries 20 years back, stood watching Obama’s victory in Chicago with tears rolling down his cheeks, the nation cried along with him.

Americans were given a life time opportunity to speak “this greatest nation which was build from scratch by calloused hands will not make the mistake of their forefathers”, they grabbed it with their two hands and made this an unforgettable day, a day to remember for all blacks killed and maimed; Butchered and raped.

Let us wish Barrack Obama for his win, and the American people for wrestling back their long tarnished moral superiority to lecture others.