IN SPECIAL HONOR OF
BARACK OBAMA'S VICTORY
THIS BOX PUBLISHED AGAIN

OUR
TURN

OR IS IT

ANYBODY SEE SOME BLACK YET ??

There is NO doubt at all

Barack Obama's life has

changed FOREVER

then eternally he will be

in the Record Books

But that is not the Real  Issue is it. For you and all of us it is what does it mean to our Lives  both personally and collectively. It will be exciting to watch  President-elect Obama work his way through the Transition. To live  through him as we do when we read any good book or watch any engaging  movie. We ge lost in these forms of entertainment. Psychologically it  is a necessary release "transference" built into the human core.

Then there will be the  most

riveting day of it all

Inauguration Day

January 20, 2009

When it becomes very  very real amid the enrapture of pomp that will be greater and grander  and filled with Symbolism more than any before. The crowds that will  fill the streets of Washington, DC will be larger than ever seen. More  Americans and people around the world will watch this Inauguration than  any before.

It may not be an  official national holiday but it will sure seem like one. Unlike most  Inaugurations which the vast majority of Americans mange to largely  ignore as they go about their own daily activities. Not this time.

So far so good so VERY  good

And if there was nothing  more it will still be worth it. Even if it is nothing more than pay  back time overdue for generations and hundreds of years since the first  African was sold into Slavery by fellow Africans to eager White  "merchants" (sic) waiting to fill their ravenous hulls full of men,  women and children destined for a "new life in America." Yes if it were  only entertaining Obama's election it will be enough. For some.

That is sure how it  looks now

and will for months to  come

those memories will live  on

and on forever more as  long

as there is human life

But one year from now it  will be November 6, 2009, a very normal workday Friday from sea to  troubled sea across America, likewise in Washington, DC and in the Oval  Office with President Obama sitting behind President Lincoln's own desk.

That's when we will know

 how real CHANGE is

YES we can or

NO we can't will

be on our Lips

SO WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO  START WRITING SPORT BLACK BOX. We  can read The New York Times or  Washington Post for political commentary. And they do it better. OUCH.  Take a Chill Pill. We are talking Sports disgruntled Box reader.

You know our mantra from  Day #1. Sports is LIFE. Certainly not some trivial pursuit. As Sports  haters want to believe. They are only fooling themselves. What remains  to be seen in Sports what if any impact the Obama Presidency has for  African Americans. We've been taking on this subject up since he first  announced 22 long months ago. But after Tuesday's result the question  takes on way more meaning.

One positive result is  fairly certain. Successful African Americans. Those with good pedigrees  and degrees from the BEST colleges just like Barack and Michelle will  fare very very well. Because they will be sought after in a Trendy Way  as never before. Every rich successful White American is going to want  to have their own Barack Obama and/or Michelle Obama "look alike" in  their own Inner Circle now.

Much more successful  talented African Americans are going to demand more of themselves and  most of all challenge high level barriers like they never have before.  President Obama truly will be a model for African Americans the higher  they are on the Food Chain in America. Likewise famous and important  Black athletes always in demand will be even more in demand while  Barack Obama is President.

Here's the point that  leaves

90%+ of African Americans

in Sports who or who want

to be in Sports so here  is

the QUESTION what will

President Obama mean

for ALL the rest of us

That is a very OPEN  question on two fronts that we won't be able to fully judge until at  least November 6, 2009, or later, although we may start getting signals  as early  as today. The two all important questions are 1) Will President Obama  do anything specific to level the playing field in the mega bucks  Sports industry for African Americans, and 2)  whether he does or does  not is the White Power  Structure, and the White Ruling Elite in Sports going to care whether  he does or dos not. Or do anything about it ???

Complicating the matter  for Obama and all of us while he raised lots of contributions $100 and  less Obama in addition Barack raised an all time record number of  $30,000 contributors and even more hundreds of so called "bundlers" who  raised and contributed hundreds of thousands for Obama for President.

Among the White Money  Elite who gave to Obama are lots of White Sports industry figures  executives and power brokers and since they answered requests from  Obama. Just the opposite now what is he going to do for them. Like pass  laws and change various regulations that make them more powerful,  less likely to embrace CHANGE.

Here's one of a thousand  examples we can use. Does anyone believe ANYONE that Bud Selig is going  to call a special owners meeting and tell the 30 owners we must have at  least one AFRICAN American owner. Which one of you White Guys is ready  to sell your team. Anybody expect to read about that meeting let alone  Obama inviting Commissioner Selig to the Oval Office to voice his  concerns about  Black Americans in Baseball.

Not in your lifetime

not on this planet of  ours

so we will wait and write

and watch what happens

in that Sport known as

Washington Politics

with Obama as the

new Quarterback

time to Play !

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