What a man! What a speech! What an achievement on this amazingly historic day!
I don't know what it is to have black skin but I am Irish and in 1955 when I landed in Shepherd's Bush London, as a ten year old I did not know why being Irish meant I was not welcome.
Why did English people put up signs 'No dogs. No Blacks. No Irish'?
Were they were scared of loosing their jobs, their homes and their way of life to folk who professed different religions, cultures not long after two world wars?
In Persian Obama translates into 'he is with us'. 'I have a dream' has come true today, 20th January 2009, because a black man has entered the White House. My Kenyan friend, Charlotte, remarked that, even if Obama achieves nothing else he has already changed history just by being welcomed as president of the United States of America.
'The ground has shifted beneath our feet' and 'we will extend a hand if they unclench their fist' together with 'we must pick ourselves up and dust ourselves off'.
These are significant remarks from a promising new African American President as he and his family take possession of the White House. As an Irish Catholic with Italian and French ancestors I take courage from a man of mixed race with Ronald Regan when he said 'it's Morning again in America'.
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