Work for Obama, Vote for Obama!

I headed out to Gary Indiana this morning to go door-to-door for Obama.
I had two different partners: Darryl, in his 30's, African American. His son attended the same pre-school as Obama's daughter. Darryl met Michelle at school functions. The second a single mom Pam; my age with a daughter who had to move from New Orleans because of Katrina. She is living in Atlanta but wants to go "home" to NO. She too is an African American. We all found common ground on economic justice issues.

We went to a third world part of the city.
I had my camera but was ashamed to take a photo.
My heart wept for the good people of America forced to live like in broken down homes
because we as a nation do not believe that the "common good" exists.
So many were seniors.
I know how much they need to have help to maintain and remain in their own homes.
One of the windows had a bullet hole.
Most folks would not come to their door but spoke through it.

There were burned out homes, boarded up homes, few kept up lawns or wooden parts of their homes like porches, front doors.

Obama brings the promise of change because he has lived and worked in such places as these. He has visited Kenya. AND Obama does not deny his roots but says, "Let us work together so all children can reach the position I have today."

I was so happy to be in this neighborhood. My heart said, "America needs to reawaken to its communitarian roots. We need to learn that we are all one and to live it." I call it Christianity. What a way to spend the day. It brought back my own living in poverty in the Michigan of my childhood. My father was a janitor and we had a family of seven children.. We had no hot water till my teens. We drove to Hamtramack each week so my mother could wash clothes and we could take baths. My mother and dad grew our food.

I wanted to take them all in. To work together to rebuild the broken homes, so many people are homeless, these homes are needed. Obama has his work cut out for him. I think he is up to it. We have our work cut out for us. We ARE up to it! Let us change the paradigm of selfishness to sharing. The future is ahead of us and I have hope.

You still have a day, get out and help his campaign however you can.
So many of the people we contacted had already voted,
help folks in your neighborhood get to the poles.