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#14:
Mansoor Munawar,
While this
poem is hilarious, I do suspect a misunderstanding by the writer, if it is
referring to my poem. I had quotation marks around “Hussein” in my last
stanza. My idea was not that I believe Obama to be a Muslim. My idea was to
point out the fact that he has been blamed for lot of things on top of
being a black. Some campaigner consistently called him Barack Hussein Osama.
He was rumored to have links with terrorists. He was blamed to be a
socialist, and having hidden agendas and what not. My quotation mark around “Hussein” were meant to show that this word was
used by others. My point being that in spite of all this hostility, he
managed to make it through to the Presidency.
As I said in
my other posts, this may not mean a whole lot politically and economically,
but it means a lot symbolically and psychologically. We must recognize, for
whatever reason, he is the first coloured person
to hold such office in the Western hemisphere. This fact in itself has a
huge impact on our new generation. I observed that myself
and I was touched by it.
I have said in
my poem, that “breaths are held in hope” I am not saying all is changed. He
has raised lot of expectation, and “nothing will go untold” because he will
be watched closely. But the truth remains that “a black is in the White
mansion” for the first time in the history. How anyone can discount this
fact.
The impact it
have on the new generation is expressed by the feeling I shared with many.
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