This is not easy to write about, but it's the truth.  There was a security fiasco at Obama's concession speech in Chicago.  Every police officer who earned a paycheck was there.  Secret service, aquatic teams in the water, plain clothes officers were all in attendance just to make sure that our new president was safe.  That's just a testament on how severe his safety is and how important that he is kept safe.  But we have to help not only keep him safe, but to keep him in office.  We have to stop making excuses for ourselves.  We have to become over achievers and start making a way out of no way.  We have to be smart enough to recognize that change does not come over night and it usually happens when we're not looking for it.  For the non believers, they have to realize that this is a new reality, possibly a reality that they never thought would materialize.  Seeing a black man as president is something that many thought they'd never, ever, ever see in their lifetime.  But it's here.  It's real.  It's now.  Now is not the time to divide.  Now is the time to come together and enjoy life as Americans.  Not as Blacks and Whites or Hispanics and Asians, but as Americans.  We can all be happy if we put all of these great minds, strong backs, loving arms, and nurturing heart together and conquer the problems that our country faces such as global warming, the oil crisis, education, heath and all the other problems that we can overcome collectively.  People say that Barak Obama made history last night.  I have to disagree.  The American people made history last night and that just proves the strength of our nation lies within its people.  It lies within US.