As a teenager I realized that if I wanted anything done for the handful of brown youth in my school we would need one of us in charge to ensure we had a voice.  So I became Junior class president and then ran uncontested for President of the entire student government.  I was in charge…a brown female in a predominantly white school in Columbia, MD.  The same thing is necessary for our country.  How can we with smiling faces push our children and stand behind them when they say things like,”I want to become President when I grow up”? How can we tell them that that is an obtainable goal and a worthwhile dream when we as a people can not even rally behind the only Brown man in the United States’ history to become a prime candidate in the race for the Presidency.  It baffles me that we as a people can be so disgruntled and so angry about our current existence but are doing nothing to rally behind a man who is putting his life on the line to make a change that will shake the very foundations of this country. 

The simple fact is we have had 43 presidents that do not look like us, were not raised like us, do not talk like us, and can not relate to us (Clinton played the sax and got some head under a desk but that doesn’t make him black it makes him a man who can play an instrument), and it is almost a joke for a little brown boy to say he wants to become President because we all believe it will never happen.  It is a sad day when a black women’s magazine “Essence” does a 3-4 page article on Hilary Clinton because she is a woman but forgets that it is our black man, Barack Obama, that needs our support more than any white woman.  If we as brown (black) women do not support him no one will and regardless of what many people think our voices resound in the heavens we are the strength of this nation. If we can not put our strength as black people, as black women, behind the man who was once that little boy who wanted to be President and is trying to change the way our little brown babies view themselves and their future we will always be a voiceless people who are depicted as the loudest, most beligerent, and worst of all the most hopeless.

Please go out and vote, rally for votes, now is the time of completion it is time to have a voice in this nation! Barack Obama for President.