Word of mouth. It’s powerful these internet age days, everything changes at warp speed now. People are connected in ways they’d never been before. We can send out an email and ask our friends to ask their friends to ask their friends to help us and it works exponentially.
Ariel got forwarded a letter today from a woman in Huntsville Alabama. I’m not sure who posted a blog on Obama’s site about our YouTube video (thanks!! by the way) but she saw it and wrote this in response:
I love your song, I am sitting at my desk in Huntsville, Alabama reading some of the blogs on Barack’s website and ran across the link to your song. I am sitting here crying right now. I am a Black woman, who is grounded in hope and vision for America . I was brought up to love people unconditionally, and I often wondered why people couldn’t do the same. For the first time in my 44 years I am seeing people of all races coming together and saying simply we LOVE AMERICA AND WE WANT IT BACK. I truly believe that Barack can lead us to winning our country back. I also have a 26 year old son who went into the National Guard when he was 17 in high school, since 911 he has been a full time soldier, unable to take advantage of educational opportunities the military has to offer because of constantly being assigned and reassigned to different posts. I love you girl for what you have done and I love my Country. I wish I had more to donate, but I know every little bit counts. And by the way, your video impacted much more than Will.i.am’s did, even though I liked his. I think they should move yours to homepage.
God Bless
Melissa
If you know anyone who lives in Texas, Ohio, Vermont or Rhode Island please encourage them to cast their vote for Senator Obama. As Melissa so eloquently states “We love America and we want it back.”
Submitted by Amie Forest
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Very nice work, you all. Thanks!! I’ve posted your video on our blog, We’re The Ones We’ve Been Waiting For (http://blog.weretheoneswevebeenwaitingfor.com). It’s a budding community of people sharing stories of inspiration, initiative and change. Welcome! (We were waiting for you!
wow
billy
I too found this site on U-Tube while watching Obama videos.
I too, after listening to this video, am sitting here in tears.
Unlike Melissa however, I am a white woman. I grew up with a step-father who filled our home with prejudice and anger and fear of anything that did not meet with his approval, which was most of the world. I now know that was all he knew. He came from a mindset that offered no other way to view the world, or sadly any hope to see beyond those beliefs.
I was somehow blessed with NOT believing his views on life and this world. Yet, it is now 47 years later and I find it heart wrenching that to this day in our country many are still tied to divisiveness and hate and anger. Not really surprising when you consider we have a fear based government that loves war, pervasive television programming full of violence and hate and a media that spreads it all like a plague. It’s everywhere, being instilled and taught.
The “movement” that has been created with the Obama campaign is one of yearning. A deep seated yearning for a better way to live in America. As Obama says, “the time is now”.
So many that have never had something to hope for or have never seen a light at the end of the tunnel are suddenly realizing the chance for a better way to live and experience and just be is before us. Those of us who know, are speaking out for perhaps the first time in years, as we too feel the “wave” of HOPE and know it needs our support.
The miracle is that a little known man from Illinois has come into our lives and offers us exactly that. The audacity of HOPE. The belief, desire and trust that there is a better way.
Thank you for your work and efforts to bring that about for America.
As a mother and grandmother the tears are also that America realizes what the Hopi have said, “We ARE the ones we have been waiting for”.
The time really is now, to change not just America but this world in which we live and will be leaving to our children and those that will follow.