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November 05 Election campain is over....Usually I stay out of politics eventhough I have my strong opinions about it because I love peace and quiet in my immediate surroundings. But now I have to write a couple of sentences...I live in the USA since 1984 and I compared this country to my homeland Germany in so many regards. People here did not educate themselves enough about what is going on in Washington. Complaining is easy. It was gruesome lately to observe how people suffered more and more under the B administration, the country looked almost doomed after the latest money issues and job losses.
But then came along a very cool and collected, well educated young man who was able to wake this country up with his political reasoning and also energized all African Americans because of his skin color. Barack Obama is President elect now. The last stretch of the election and Nov. 4. was an event nobody will forget in his/her lifetime. Time Square in New York was packed, like so many places in other metropolitan areas, people cried because they felt relieved. Hope for a better country, for better foreign relations in the world, for better social issues, like health insurance and alternative energy sources.
Most of my heart was and always will be in Germany. But yesterday night I had a feeling I sofar never had since my naturalization in 1990 - I was proud to be an American! When we visited Dieters parents in 1962 in New Jersey, who immigrated from Germany into the USA in 1953, Dieter and I still whitnessed that black people made room on a pathway for whites. On a later visit, being in the J.F. Kennedy Airport in NY, I addressed a luggage carrier who was an elderly black man helping us with our suitcases with "Sir". He stared at me and almost cried. Those times seems to be over now. And therefore I feel good inside. |
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