President Obama and Our First Family
I along with many millions of Americans and people around the world celebrated the election of our new President Obama. Historical for us all! How empowered I was to hear his acceptance speech with my friends at the election party Carly and Chuck Vivian had. This, as I say when speaking to corporates about generations, was a defining moment, a significant “I remember where I was when…” event.
I spent the week before with my 96 year old God Mother Ida Burks in Toledo who shared what it was like for her to vote for her candidate of choice (Barack Obama) and what this meant to her. She was a Rosie The Riveter for GE when they wouldn’t hire Black people. She was an actor when it was “improper” to be one and a person who stood for freedom. Today she’s a vivacious charismatic woman who told me that “just last year I started feeling old.” President Obama’s election brought back her youth and what her contributions mean to today’s people.
If you would like to read a heartwarming article on what life might be like at the White House with our New First Family, read this one in the New York Times. It gave evidence of the true meaning of family values. Here’s a quote:
As the first African-Americans in the role, they will be a living tableau of racial progress, and friends say they are acutely aware that everything they say and do — the way they dress, where Malia, 10, and Sasha, 7 , go to school, even what kind of puppy they adopt — will brim with symbolic value.
“Here’s an intact black family, a happy family, with beautiful kids and a loving extended family,” Ms. Williams said, “and they happen to live in the executive mansion.”
I for one am ready volunteer. And as the politicians say when they conclude a speech, God Bless You and God Bless America. To this I add God Bless Our First Family.
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About the Author: Dr. Joel Martin, transformational trainer, executive coach, corporate consultant, women’s advocate, speaker, and author of HOW TO BE A POSITIVELY POWERFUL PERSON. For more than 15 years, has served hundreds of thousands of people changing lives and businesses for the better. Successful in getting people where they want to be faster. President of Triad West & Positively Powerful Transformational Events headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona. Core competencies are diversity, leadership, aligning and engaging workforce, OD, and tapping into and releasing personal power.
