Progression VS Regression

<p><img style="WIDTH:316px;HEIGHT:305px;" height="305" alt="" src="http://a323.yahoofs.com/phugc/2Zeib2ROoW52/photos/b974a9fbc2e2b6eb14f5d9cf59be8628/ori_51cd6b470414ac.jpg?ug_____DD82IDhRP" width="316"><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt;FONT-FAMILY:'Times New Roman';">As I analytically watch the post victory moves of our president elect, I cannot help but wonder whither his candidacy will bring progression to the</span> point of actually looking beyond color entirely or regression in the form of trying to force society to ‘make amends for years of oppression.’ Obama’s rise to his current position was a fast one, he seems to represent an idea to Americans, that notion that we have finally come to the point to which a man is not judged by his color and in turn will not judge by his color. I am from a younger generation, at 25 years of age I have seen racism perpetrated by both whites and blacks. I’ve been&nbsp;around white people who astonish me with their old ways of thinking and I’ve been around blacks that anger me with their unjustified “woe is me” mentality. I can however honestly say that from a social standpoint that blacks of my generation have every opportunity to secede that whites do and judgements&nbsp;are biased upon actions and not color, at least by my pears and institutional rule. Reverend White, the man whom led the church that Obama attended since 1990 represents the old way of thinking. He is biter and wants reparations for the sins of those white generations before me (and if I had suffered as he may have, who knows I may too). His line of thought is not progressive because it’s a hard pill for my generation to swallow. For you see neither I nor my most of my piers have been the perpetrators of a hate crime. I’ve never told a black man to “get to the back of the bus” and I don’t intend to pay for crimes I never committed. What I am about to say next I say purely for the sake argumentative thought, know that I am not bitter and I am only stating factual events. I have at the age of 25 had a gun pulled on me twice and been told that I’m about to receive a beat down simply because I am white and I was in the wrong part of town. My mother was held at knifepoint once, her purse and car were robbed, and her life threatened. None of the aforementioned events were perpetrated by white men. I have never attempted to get even nor am I bitter, I view them as ignorant and part of the problem. For us to progress and truly be colorblind we must be able to truly forgive.</p> <p><span style="FONT-FAMILY:Times NewRoman;"></span>&nbsp;</p> <p>To the American people Obama represents the notion that we can move past the past. That a black man can be trusted with the lives of people of every color and not act emotions from the past and deal honestly with the conditions of the present. Time will tell if we have reached that milestone which would make Obama’s election as president truly an historic event. As in any argument there is never a resolution while neither party refuses to let bygones be bygones. </p>