Barack Obama Sarah Dylan the It’s Not Enough Speech and Song

Barack Obama gave a speech today, the "It’s Not Enough" speech, which is already being compared to Martin Luther King’s "I Have a Dream" speech, which was delivered by the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate on August 28, 1963, from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC.

Smeared by accusations of racism against whites due to comments made by his former pastor Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., comments which Barack Obama earlier denounced, Barack Obama went a long way towards healing the centuries old rift between white, black, Latino, Asian and Americans of all colors.

Here is a beautiful story of love and compassion and coming together between blacks and whites and older and younger generations which Barack Obama told at the end of his speech today, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:

"There is one story in particularly that I’d like to leave you with today – a story I told when I had the great honor of speaking on Dr. King’s birthday at his home church, Ebenezer Baptist, in Atlanta.

There is a young, twenty-three year old white woman named Ashley Baia who organized for our campaign in Florence, South Carolina. She had been working to organize a mostly African-American community since the beginning of this campaign, and one day she was at a roundtable discussion where everyone went around telling their story and why they were there.

And Ashley said that when she was nine years old, her mother got cancer. And because she had to miss days of work, she was let go and lost her health care. They had to file for bankruptcy, and that’s when Ashley decided that she had to do something to help her mom.

She knew that food was one of their most expensive costs, and so Ashley convinced her mother that what she really liked and really wanted to eat more than anything else was mustard and relish sandwiches. Because that was the cheapest way to eat.

She did this for a year until her mom got better, and she told everyone at the roundtable that the reason she joined our campaign was so that she could help the millions of other children in the country who want and need to help their parents too.

Now Ashley might have made a different choice. Perhaps somebody told her along the way that the source of her mother’s problems were blacks who were on welfare and too lazy to work, or Hispanics who were coming into the country illegally. But she didn’t. She sought out allies in her fight against injustice.

Anyway, Ashley finishes her story and then goes around the room and asks everyone else why they’re supporting the campaign. They all have different stories and reasons. Many bring up a specific issue. And finally they come to this elderly black man who’s been sitting there quietly the entire time. And Ashley asks him why he’s there. And he does not bring up a specific issue. He does not say health care or the economy. He does not say education or the war. He does not say that he was there because of Barack Obama. He simply says to everyone in the room, "I am here because of Ashley."

"I’m here because of Ashley." By itself, that single moment of recognition between that young white girl and that old black man is not enough. It is not enough to give health care to the sick, or jobs to the jobless, or education to our children. But it is where we start. It is where our union grows stronger. And as so many generations have come to realize over the course of the two-hundred and twenty one years since a band of patriots signed that document in Philadelphia, that is where the perfection begins."

Barack Obama has set lofty goals for the people of the United States of America and planet Earth. The goal is for people of every race, creed, color and religion to love each other, to do unto everyone what you would have them do unto you, to end the criticism in people of other people because of their race, color, creed or religion. This is how we will unite as one and end war and solve climate change and poverty together, because united as one we are powerful, but divided against each other we are powerless.

Sixteen year old Sarah Dylan wrote and sings a song called "Not Enough" here: http://www.myspace.com/sarahdylanmusic In the song, "Not Enough", Sarah Dylan sings: "I’m not a perfect person, I don’t expect to be, So why is that something, That you expect from me? I can’t be who you want to me be, You’ve got two eyes so why can’t you see, I’ve got a heartbeat, I’m happy, So tell me why, That’s not enough, That’s not enough?" When the people of Earth understand that having a different skin color is not an imperfection, it will not be enough, but it will be a wonderful start on our way to living in peaceful co-existence, according to Barack Obama in his historic speech today, "It’s Not Enough."