The view from the other-side of the pond...
Watching the swearing in of the 44th President of the United States Barack Obama from a locale, somewhere north of the Great Lakes I was stunned by just how much the whole parade reminded me not of Hulkamania but of the giant hippy hay-party known as Woodstock.
Too many people, not enough water, Port-o-potty premiums.
Perhaps Barackstock would have been more fitting than Obamamania.
Washington was run over by the visiting droves, thousand flocked to the cities centre for a brief glimpse of the man of the hour and Obama delivered strolling down Pennsylvania Avenue to the delight of the on-looking crowd.
America, little brother to the Great White North
You have surpassed your brother with giant leaps in the area of racial equality. As you bask in the glow of a new day, your brother unenlightened, struggles to recover the past. Columnist Innocent Madawo said it best in a column entitled "Following Barack’s footsteps" which appeared in the Toronto Sun earlier this week when he said
"unlike our peers in the U.S., a lot of black Canadians in positions of influence dwell in the victim-hood of the slave era. It is this pre-historic attitude that is driving such self-destructive programs as an Africentric school campaign in Toronto"
Toronto foray into Africentic schooling is flawed from its very root and will only strike to separate our children further. The steel drum may represent a very significant cultural icon but what makes sense for future generation course in computer networking or lessons on the steel drum.
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