A Black Child Discovers the Big Lie Actress Phylicia Rashad, appearing on a Martin Luther King day program on CNN, shared a memory from her childhood in Texas. Seeing a water fountain labeled “For Whites Only” and curious about why she, a black child, could not drink there, she took a drink from that forbidden fountain. To her amazement the water tasted exactly the same as that in the “Colored Only” fountain. Instantly she saw the truth: racism was a giant lie, foisted by white America on the former slaves of the south. Black Americans knew this of course, in their bodies and hearts, but it took the rest of America years to wake up and get it. Obama’s Presidency Been A Huge Turning Point With the election of Barack Obama as President, the United States of America has been swept up in a wave of energy as our collective lie of the mind, our racism, has been released at long last.

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The historic election of Barak Obama seemed to raise the Spirit of the nation. Fatigued by eight years of aggression-driven policies, the nation seemed to dance with joy for the possibilities of a new dawn. A few days after my euphoria subsided, I found myself working to contain my expectations of what one man can accomplish in 8 years with a dysfunctional system of governance.The word barak means to kneel in Arabic (as in prayer) and it is derived from the root word barakah meaning blessing. Could it be that this blessing of Barak is a natural response to the ebbing of the life force we experienced under the Bush presidency? By electing Mr. Obama have we entered a period of expansion of consciousness after the Bush/Cheney years of contraction?

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