We can Change (?)
Fa força temps que no escric res en el bloc. Malgrat moltes idees van passant pel meu cap, no trobo el moment de posar-me a escriure.
Però avui he rebut una cosa d'aquelles que no passen inadvertides. Des dels EUA m'han enviat un video de suport a Barack Obama per part d'artistes de diferents àmbits. Realment la imatge i la música són excel·lents. El discurs/lletra de la cançó també. Un molt bon discurs polític.
Als EUA sembla que hi ha vent de canvis. Més ens val! Els candidats republicans són un pas endarrera pel país, però també per al món. Només queda per veure si aquest canvi es consolida i qui el liderarà. Clinton o Obama?
Dos casos interessants que poden portar per primera vegada una dona o un negre al Despatx Oval de la Casa Blanca. Dos discursos prometedors que anuncien una nova etapa esperada per molta gent als EUA i a molts altes indrets. Caldrà veure si, suposant que guanyen les eleccions aquests aires de canvi, quan es passi de la campanya electoral, els discursos i les propostes a la relitat la política nord-americana realment obre un nova etapa.
It was a creed written into the founding documents that declared the destiny of a nation: "Yes we can".
It was whispered by slaves and abolitionists as they blazed a trail toward freedom. Yes we can.
It was sung by immigrants as they struck out from distant shores and pioneers who pushed westward against an unforgiving wilderness. Yes we can.
It was the call of workers who organized; women who reached for the ballots; a President who chose the moon as our new frontier; and a King who took us to the mountaintop and pointed the way to the Promised Land.
Yes we can to justice and equality.
Yes we can to opportunity and prosperity.
Yes we can heal this nation.
Yes we can repair this world.
Yes we can.
We know the battle ahead will be long, but always remember that no matter what obstacles stand in our way, nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.
We have been told we cannot do this by a chorus of cynics...they will only grow louder and more dissonant. We've been asked to pause for a reality check. We've been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope.
But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about Hope.
Now the hopes of the little girl who goes to a crumbling school in Dillon are the same as the dreams of the boy who learns on the streets of LA; we will remember that there is something happening in America; that we are not as divided as our politics suggests; that we are one people; we are one nation; and together, we will begin the next great chapter in the American story with three words that will ring from coast to coast; from sea to shining sea --
Yes. We. Can.
