We Can

5/20/10 letter to Whitehouse.gov
Dear Mr. Obama,
As President your power to unilaterally affect change is minimal, but your influence on Americans is tremendous. I've campaigned on the benefits of social equality in America for a long time. As you know Black Americans have lagged and you can do more to help. By any measure Black Americans are not making enough progress and that impacts the entire country. As a country our success depends on all citizens participating. Your legacy can include an era of great awakening for the American Black community. The awakening involves the message of "yes you can", yes you can participate, yes you can respect yourselves and others, yes you can live responsibly, you can learn from the past but cannot progress unless you leave that past and act in the present. The message to Black Americans is that "NOW IS YOUR TIME" to become all that your forebearers had dreamed of. In fact, it is a familiar American mantra and of potentially great historic significance that it may just be the right time for Black Americans to carry that torch/carry that message by example to all Americans. Our success as a country depends on the fully functioning participation of all.