African Press International
(Norway)
now to seek
To have its place at
The White House
Press Briefing Room
It has been interesting following the American politics. API feared that the new president would easily impose leaders on the Kenyan people. That fear has now gone after listening to the president’s inauguration address a number of times.
The man is inclusive and he has demonstrated that when making appointments selecting even some politicians who were his critics.
API has written a personal letter today to President Obama congratulating him for having demonstrated inclusiveness as soon as he took office.
During the campaign, API was one of the media outlets that criticised the President and that brought many Americans to API site because they too were critical of him.
Recently, we have asked those readers to join hands and give their President a chance to govern instead of disruptions.
During the campaign we realised that those who did not want President Obama to win were very radical in their thoughts. We realised that when we read through all the thousands of emails they send to API telling API how President Obama was to be stopped from winning. Most of them left comments in API comment boxes that led us to believe that they were very scared to let President Obama to win.
Many of them who send in there emails expressed fear that if Obama won, it was going to be the end of the world for them. Many of those people were so negative and could not find in their heart to forgive themselves if the country ended up electing a black man to become the president.
Reading the emails, one realises how desperate they became because they were faced with a situation never experienced before.
These emails received from the US expressing fear, thousands of them will now be put into one document and will be used in healing those who send them in when they were psychologically angry. Once the document is compiled it will contain over 15 thousand emails and comments. As a healing process, API will send a copy to all the people who emailed their expressing their desperation, so that they may use it in the much needed healing process now that the man they wanted to see not elected has become their president.
The document will be very important because of the election that will take place in 4 years time when President Obama seeks re-election. It is important to use it now to heal the American wounds so that the next election will be smoother.
Here below is the letter dispatched to the president:
Sammy Korirs letter
to President Obama
This is something I have to get over and move on. I have also realised that those who were competing with you, your heart is big enough to accommodate them in your administration. This is one major thing people in politics should exercise - being politically mature as you have shown by being inclusive, appointing your opponents into your administration.
Having heard how you plan to move forward in your plans to govern America and how you intend to extend your political guidance to the larger world, API has now decided to follow your policies closely, and what best way for us to do so than get API branch office in Washington and seek to be allowed to have API represented in the White House Press Briefing Room alongside other journalists.
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