An Auspicious Beginning:

The American Dream Comes True

By Isaac Davis Jr., BGS, MBA
Edited by Tina Leggett, BBA

I want to extend to the readers of this Webzine a Happy New Year. While we were pleased with the magazine’s performance last year, this years focus will see the magazine continue forging its niche in the online entertainment publication world in hopes of spinning this Webzine into a new direction. Initially, I wanted to outline all that has happened to Junior’s Cave; however after speaking with Todd, Entertainment and Political Columnist, I now believe that it is important to cover the upcoming historical event that will take place on January 20, 2009 – the 44th presidential inauguration of President Elect Barack Obama.

This world has witnessed a “Change” in this country’s attitude that equals the events of the 1960’s thus it would have been negligent for me to not speak about the steps leading up to now. When Senator Barack Obama first embarked on his bid to become our 44th President of the United States, there were many who felt that he would never see his dreams come to fruition.

President-Elect Obama’s vision of a “Change” touched so many lives not just in our home country but throughout the world that I feel America has finally grown up. I am not going to address the feud between Senator Clinton and Senator Obama during the National Democratic Convention; I will save that for the many Political Analysts to debate; however, I will state that Barack’s tenacious attitude of never giving up forced me to place in perspective my own personal struggles as an African-American male living in the United States.

What Barack’s road to the White House has taught me is that it does not matter who one is or where he comes from; instead one can choose to take afforded opportunities and shine. More importantly, Barack’s mission of “Change” helped me to realize that one can not simply lie down in life and take what it tosses. One needs to be able to develop a strong backbone to tackle any adversities in order to be effective.

Barack will make history on Tuesday when he is sworn in as our 44th President of the United States. The history that is unfolding for those of you living under a rock is the inauguration of the Nation’s 1st African-American President; something that I thought my Grandparents born in 1919 and 1925 respectively would ever live to see. It is amazing to think that our older generation will witness this historic event. Just think about where we were as a Nation during the 1920’s – 1970’s and where we are at now; it gives me goose bumps to say the least.

So as I leave you with this final thought about how African-Americans and Americans for that matter will change; the dream that America – a melting pot that blends all of us as one – may soon be realized as we take this auspicious beginning together in a country that is finally growing up.