The Real Message of Obama's Innauguaration

The timing of the inauguration of America's 44th president couldn't be better for marking the historic accession to power of America's first black president, coming as it does on the heels of the anniversary of MLK's I have a Dream speech, but the Obama message that we are all one people is the real message of the day and must not get crowded out.

Too much depends upon all Americans being vested in our success for the inauguration to become bogged down in what - while historic and wonderful - is nonetheless parochial, when viewed in the light of what lies ahead of us.

Barack's message: "We are one people" must rise above all the parochial interests of the day and capture our imaginations and fire our actions.

Robert Kennedy said it well: "All of us <> share one precious possession, and that is the name American. It is not easy to know what that means. But, in part, to be an American means to have been an outcast and a stranger, to have come from the exiles' country, and to know that he who denies the outcast and the stranger still amongst us, he also denies America."

"Fawn in a Green Wood"

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