Comments on: Obama’s two unnoticed gifts

By: Life with Kaishon

Life with Kaishon — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 04:36:01 +0000

While looking for a story tonight to share on my blog I came across your story about the taxi ride and the old woman. I loved it. It spoke to me.

By: Katie

Katie — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 23:29:05 +0000

I found your site through Stumble. I was one of the people who read your cab driver story, but for some reason I didn’t come to your website at that time.

But here I am.

And your amazing, contemplative insights into our world give me hope and fill me with wonder.

May you be filled with the light you so freely give.

By: Inshirah Barbour

Inshirah Barbour — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 20:35:35 +0000

I have to say that I read your book as an assignment for class. Living here in America my heart has always been torn waiting for death and trying to find peace. In a way your book has given me hope. That there are people who do know right from wrong. I do want to say that Obama has shown in his position that there is a right way to behave and has emulated it so far to perfection. I’m grateful that a leader in our country has finally shown that triumph may not always be there but there is a time for justice MAY IT BE TODAY.

By: Craig Eilers

Craig Eilers — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 00:33:32 +0000

Kent,
I appreciate you commentary and thoughts on Michelle and Barack Obama. Although I did not vote for Barack, I feel that he and Michelle are very fine people and I am proud that he is now our president.

I just finished reading ‘Neither Wolf nor Dog’ and it has had a profound effect on me. I am sixty years old and have lived in Yakima, WA, my entire life. Our community borders the Yakama Indian Reservation. I have seen first hand the way my white fellow Americans treat Native Americans and it sickens me to my core. Although my political views tend toward those of an independent conservative, I am very concerned that our country will continue to struggle until we as a people can find a way to seek forgiveness from those we have transgressed against for so many years. I hope to do my part in the years ahead to further this cause. I thank you for the work you have done on behalf of the native people in our country.

By: Flora Morris Brown, Ph.D.

Flora Morris Brown, Ph.D. — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 19:54:46 +0000

Kent,

Thank you for your eloquent words and clear insight. It wasn’t until President Obama was elected that I ever considered attending an Inauguration in person. As the words announcing his win scrolled across the TV screen on November 4, 2008 I knew I had to go to Washington, D.C. to celebrate this historic shift in world history.

As an African American I was especially proud not only for Obama’s achievement, but for the sacrifices of my family and ancestors before him that made this moment possible. What moved me most was watching groups of celebrants from all corners of the globe not only rejoicing, but in recognizing the significance of this moment.

The two strengths–Michelle and Barack’s “cool” are familiar qualities to me in many successful Black families. Such families haven’t been famous, and thus were not known by a wide public, but they have been successful all the same. I am thrilled that in our new First Family we have the two strengths be revealed for the world to see.

Thanks for pointing this out to us.