WE ARE THE CHANGE

WE ARE THE CHANGE

WE ARE THE CHANGE

Now that Sen. Barack Obama has been elected President,
it’s time for us to focus on moving our country forward. We
voted for change not because it was a good campaign slogan,
but because we wanted and needed a new public policy
direction for our nation.


We don’t have to wait for anyone to tell us what to do. We
know what needs to be done. We need to let our elected
offi cials know what we want and what our priorities are. We
need to let them know that we expect them to be responsive
and that we will hold them accountable. That means we must
pay attention, be willing to speak out and be willing to vote our
interests.


We need to let our elected offi cials know that we want a new
direction in our nation’s foreign policy; that we want access
to quality, affordable health care for all Americans; energy
independence from foreign oil; clean air; clean water; a clean
energy economy that creates new jobs and helps reduce
climate change; more jobs in urban neighborhoods; more
services in our communities; more affordable housing; property
tax relief; a middle class tax cut; a tax code that helps families,
small business owners and entrepreneurs; a minimum wage
that lifts full-time workers our of poverty; better schools; better
public transportation and an improved infrastructure.

We know what we need – more opportunities for ourselves
and a better America for our children and grandchildren.
As Dr. Benjamin Mays said, “The sin is not failure but low
expectation.”


The Bible tells us “the people must have a mind to work.”
Let’s work together to make our nation better, right now, not 10
or 20 years from now. Now is not the time for us to stop or wait.
Now is the time for a long-term commitment to participating in
the heavy lifting of being fully engaged in the political and civic
life of our community. We need to keep moving and climbing
to reach the mountaintop.

We need to ensure change.
As President-elect Obama has said, “We are the change we
have been waiting for.”
carroll g. robinson

Carroll G. Robinson is an associate professor at Texas Southern University’s Barbara Jordan-Mickey Leland
School of Public Affairs and chairman of the board of the Houston Citizens Chamber of Commerce.

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