Also published on Huffington Post India
What an amazing week of speeches it was at the Democratic National Convention of Philadelphia in July 2016.
What an amazing week of speeches it was at the Democratic National Convention of Philadelphia in July 2016.
As I blogger and speechwriter, I drooled and envied and
applauded the speeches, their writers and the people who delivered them with such
grace and sincerity.
These speeches, they weren’t mere election rhetoric.
They inspired and put faith back in people’s hearts to where
it belonged.
They touched people across nations and gave them hope. For
their own people and their own situations.
They were powerful messages of equality, of humanity and of
togetherness; of the need for restraint and equally of being able to take a
stand; of leaving something back for our children and being role models for
them; of decency and generosity; of courage and grace and optimism.
These speeches were not just about America.
They did not just inspire and touch a nation.
When people saw whites and people of Anglo-Saxon and
Caucasian origin cheering and crying as First Lady Michelle and President Obama
spoke, you knew that people across the world are just as good.
That the human race, across nations, will go beyond race,
colour, class and caste.
That the whites will take a stand for blacks; and the blacks
will fight for the whites; that Christians will support the Moslems; and Moslems
will be friends with Hindus; that Hindus will help Christians and Moslems will
weep for the Sikhs and that the Sikhs will always support a noble cause.
And that everyone will help and pray and take a stand for
everyone who is down.
Acrimony and terror and the hate mongering may have made
people cringe and withdraw and be in doubt.
And the wolves may have cashed in on fear, to divide people
on race, colour, class and caste.
But the speeches of Philadelphia helped to remind and reinforce
that good will prevail over bad. Not just in America, but across continents and
countries.
And for that reminder, speechwriters, go on, take a bow!
Watch the speeches here:
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