NO MORE EXCUSSES

Wow, wow, wow, as I sit here and write I am filled with an abundance of emotions. I sit and stare at my television in awe! In a time were black people were reduced to “colored only” section still roam the earth. When individuals who marched with Martin and stood with Malcolm and remember a time when crosses were burnt in the front porch are breathing the same air as I, we have a BLACK PRESEDENT!

On man, this means so much, as I write with tears in my eyes I remember my parents telling me “Kanita you can be what ever you want to be as long as you set your mind to it.” They also told me “Kanita you have two things against you in this world, you are a woman and you are black, you must ALWAYS work harder then the next person to achieve your goals.” I remember listening to my parents, I heard and I understood but I honestly did not believe. I knew that I lived in a land or racism and some privileges would not be extended to me because unfortunately I was born with two strikes I am a WOMAN and I am BLACK.

As I sit in MY living room a 27 year old with a masters degree, as I process the events that have just taken place I can only think of one thing. While there are so many conclusions and feelings to be derived from this historic event, one that I NEVER thought I would be alive to see, the one I want to verbalize and express is NO MORE EXCUSSES!!!!

I can no longer make excuses for my failures; YOU can no longer make excuses for your failures! Who cares that you are black? It does not matter that some people hate you because of the color of your skin or because of your sex. What matters is that you PUT IN THE WORK! Nothing worth getting in this world will come easy, everything MUST be worked for and we are no longer about to pull the race card. Tear it up! Burn it! Do what ever you need to do but DO SOMETHING because we can! PRESIDENT OBAMA has proven that it us! Yes WE can! WE CAN!!! WE CAN DO IT ALL! WE CAN DO ANYTHING WE SET OUT MINDS TO!

I did not think that day would happen in my lifetime but what I have learned on November 4, 2008 that I will share with everyone I know is that we have NO MORE EXCUSSES!